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Elizabeth Devlin

About Me

Elizabeth Devlin invokes influences from scratchy American and French phonographs, combining bitter sweet, haunting vocals with poignant lyrics and angelic, cacophonous melodies. Papa Devlin fancied himself a gypsy and traveled the coast peddling his one-man-band street performance; Momma was a writer, who tended many children and hand sewed puppets to sell on the DC streets. Pulling these things to her, Elizabeth's performance art began as lyrical, melodic, acapella poetry but soon blossomed into an electroacoustic sound when she began to play the Autoharp.
"All Are Relative", Elizabeth's debut full length album, offers up a delicious residual hum of dreams and fantastic things; the ear should eat this album in one sitting. Although the individual tracks run a gamut of genre associations, they were conceived as symbiotic pieces intertwined, parts of a dynamic storybook, an audible, cerebral landscape. "All Are Relative" was recorded and produced with friend and musician, Kyle Avallone, in small town Belmar, New Jersey, located three blocks from the ocean, in a hundred-year-old house with creaky steps, a leaky attic, and several orphaned inhabitants.
After self-releasing her full-length debut album “All Are Relative” in Dec 08, Elizabeth joins the BNS Sessions roster to internationally release "All Are Relative" with distribution through Cargo Records UK to retail and record shops throughout Europe along with Digital Distribution to ITunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Napster, HMV, and Virgin Megastore.
Elizabeth Devlin is the two-time recipient of the Common Ground On the Hill, Roots Music & Arts Memorial Scholarship through which, she attended Traditions Music Workshops in 2007 & 2008. Also in 2008, Elizabeth was awarded the Mary Lou Orthey Scholarship to attend the Mt. Laurel Autoharp Gathering where she received the Leonard A. Reid Peoples Choice Award for Outstanding Vocal Performance.
"All Are Relative" Debut Full-Length
Produced by Kyle Avallone & Elizabeth Devlin
Recorded & Mixed by Kyle Avallone
Mastered by Paul Gold, Salt Mastering
Photography by Magali Charron
Elizabeth Devlin, Autoharp, Song & Lyrics
Kyle Avallone, Bass
Debe Dalton, Banjo

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/01/2007
Band Website: www.AllAreRelative.com
Band Members: Elizabeth Devlin - Vocals, Autoharp & Music/Lyrics

PRESS: [email protected]
NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION: www.AllAreRelative.com, iTUNES, CDBaby, antifolk.net.
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION (UK & EUROPE): [email protected]

Influences: The antithesis of nothing...

...AND...

"To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing."-Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Sounds Like:

"Once Again Sleep" of Debut full-length album ALL ARE

"Then think about Elizabeth Devlin, who sings as though her influences are not of this Earth, and who, a scant three years ago, compelled audiences to listen intently through hour-long shows at Sidewalk, her lilting vibrato accompanied only by the handclaps she could chide out of the audience. In less-capable hands, an hour of solo a capella songs would be interminable, but Devlin soldiered on and kept audiences interested for a few months, before picking up an autoharp, and not so much learning it, so much as having the instrument in her bones. This, All Are Relative, is Devlin's debut full-length (or any length, save one song on Crafty Records' Anticomp Folkilation in 2007), and it is a testament to her ability as a songwriter, singer and monumentally gifted performer."

-JezebelMusic.com, Record Review: All Are Relative, By:Brook Pridemore Dec. 12, 2008

"Elizabeth Devlin is a creative young singer from Queens, with a voice at once strong and ethereal. She accompanies herself on Autoharp, which casts her every song in shades of spooky."

-MUSIC: Critics' Picks, TimeOUT NY, Dec. 4-10, 2008 ISSUE 688

"In a sea of female vocalists armed with pianos, guitars and a Regina Spektor fixation, it thrills me to hear a great songwriter sporting an autoharp and a voice like Snow White with a dash of helium."

-Ben Krieger, A Review of Williamsburg Songwriter Competition 11/9/07, Bar Matchless
www.jezebelmusic.com/weblog

"Devlin invokes influences from scratchy American phonograph, combining bitter-sweet, haunting vocals with angelic, cacophonous Autoharp melodies."

-Press Release, Make Music NYC 7/21/07, Wagner's Cove, Central Park, NYC
www.myspace.com/wagnerscove, www.makemusicny.org,

"That's when it happens. She comes up on stage, all five foot five of her, solid cute, unassuming, adorable. She's got no instrument, and you wonder, 'What? Is she one of those lame-ass comics? Or worse: a poet?'...And in a way, she is; but a poet with lyrics, a poet like Homer, only she can see, and she can speak English, and she can sing."

-Jonathan Berger, A Guide to the Fortified Summer Antifolk Fest 2006, Aug12-20: Featured Arrtist, UrbanFolk

Record Label: BNS Sessions
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

UK TOUR: May 8-14, 2009: Ireland & England - EURO TOUR: May 15-27: Switzerland, Germany, France

UK TOUR: May 8-14, 2009: Ireland & England EUROPEAN TOUR: May 15-27: Switzerland, Germany, France I have a special announcement! Ik heb een speciale aankondiging! Jai une annonce spéciale!...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 13:59:00 GMT

"Creating The Cool" Blog Review

There is another great blog in town and my performance at Sidewalk Cafe was reveiwed!See below...ORFollow this link to veiw "The Cool"
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:03:00 GMT

SPRING-APRIL 09' CANADA TOUR! avec Geneviève et Matthieu et Dan Costello

During the end of December through New Years, I went to Montreal tovisit my good friend Peter Nevins. Through Peter, I had the opportunityto meet Geneviève et Matthieu, www.myspace.com/genevieveetmatt...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:39:00 GMT

"Going Continental" I'll be touring w/ Larkin Grimm: Winter 2009

Several months ago, I turned around to see a beautiful gypsy-esque looking lady offer me a white carnation...everything else from that point has been KISMET:) This is the magical way in which I met Ms...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:47:00 GMT

LAUNCHED MUSIC VIDEO & SHOP PAGE ON WEBSITE!!!

I am very pleased to announce...We have launched my full length music video for the song "Once Again Sleep":CLICK HERE TO GO TO VIDEO!!!It is an artistic masterpiece animated but non other then the ...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:10:00 GMT

THANK YOU SO MUCH....P.S. I LOVE YOU...

Its been one week since my album release party...it feels like a year.Life of late, passes like the days of childhood...slow...undefinable...full of longing...bonded only by small, fleeting moments of...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:08:00 GMT

"All Are Relative" Reviewed & Received A- on JezebelMusic.com!

To view click here...OR ...read below...December 12, 2008Record Review: All Are RelativeFresh Baked:Elizabeth DevlinAll Are Relative2008 | self-releasedA-An Autoharp? That box thing that Mother Maybel...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:38:00 GMT

MUSIC: Critics Picks, TimeOUT NY, Dec. 4-10, 2008 ISSUE 688

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Posted by on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:56:00 GMT

I aint got religion but I like singin at church!

On Dec 6th at noon, I, along with 60+ other musicians, storytellers, actors and dancers, performed as part of a day long festival celebrating the restored, refurbished and now, rededicated cathedral.O...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:36:00 GMT

The Poetry Project

There is an amazing thing called "The Poetry Project" at St. Marks Church 131 E. 10th St. NYC!On Friday Dec. 5th, I performed with several other wonderful musicians (to name a few...John Houx, Frank H...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:43:00 GMT