Allison is one of twelve finalists in the 2008 South Florida Folk Festival Singer-Songwriter Competition!
Her song "Famous Blue Apron," from her new CD release Redbud Winter, spent two weeks at NUMBER ONE and nine weeks in the top 15 on the WOT90 internet radio charts.
Raised in Rabun County, in the farthest corner of the Northeast Georgia mountains, Allison Adams writes songs that draw on a reservoir of experiences from her upbringing--comfort offered by a tiny A.M. gospel radio station, the fragile economy of a rural community, the traditional art and science of canning food. Allison's music is also influenced by the sounds she grew up hearing--the local bluegrass and traditional music of her community, her father's Grandpa Jones albums, her mother's "The Sound of Music" soundtrack, and a lot of southern rock--as well as her own inner voice. She also had ten years of classical piano training from age six and began playing acoustic guitar at fifteen.
After high school, she set aside her music interests to pursue an education and a career as a writer and editor. She completed a graduate degree in English at Emory University in 2000 then bought a new guitar and began writing, singing, and playing again. She also picked up the English concertina. In years past she has sung and played concertina around the Atlanta area and the North Georgia mountains in the folk duo Bittersweet and the original roots-rock band Letters to Mary.
Harmony singing brings Allison great joy and she loves finding a place for her voice in duets or ensembles. Since 2003, she has been one-third of Local Honey, an acoustic trio that performs “songs we like,†whether it’s jazz standards or Allison’s originals, and features female duet harmony. She sings alto and plays concertina and guitar with the eclectic vocal quartet Old Enough to Know Better. She also sings and plays guitar, mandolin, and concertina with the trio The Beans, which does a mix of the members' originals and some cover favorites.
