Arielle Silver

Raised on folk festivals, prayer services, poetry, and punk rock, Arielle Silver is a consummate storyteller whose rich, expressive voice and acoustic guitar frame expansive melodies that echo her travels across the American heartland.

Born on Florida’s Gulf Coast to a coupla kids younger than you, she grew up in woodsy spots along the mid-Atlantic, skinny-dipped through her 20s at Walden Pond, and now feeds the feral cats beneath her home in Los Angeles a traffic jam away from the Pacific Ocean.

Arielle’s fifth album, Watershed, featured on the Americana Music Charts for 18 weeks, has received national acclaim for its “sophisticated, reflective songs” (Twangville) that run with an ethic of care and ecological notice connecting ideas to experiences, and people to places.

A “masterful storyteller, blending the soul of Americana roots with influences drawn equally from Laurel Canyon and Greenwich Village,” Arielle’s songwriting and “enchanting” stage presence (Music Connection) has earned accolades from the Boston Globe (“lovely songwriting”) and bestselling author Cheryl Strayed (“Beautiful”) as well as second place in the International Acoustic Music Awards, Finalist at the Tucson Folk Festival and South Florida Acoustic Music Festival, among others. In between her tours across the country, Arielle teaches creative writing at Antioch University, leads holistic yoga workshops, and supports music makers at The SONA Foundation and as former Folk Alliance Region-West Board Member.