Elizabeth Devlin

all 2021, Devlin will release her second EP, Conscientious Objector (What A Mess! In 2022, Devlin continues to tour and will release her third full-length album on vinyl, My Father's Country (What A Mess! Devlin’s third full-length album, Orchid Mantis (2017), received 4.5/5 from Impose Magazine and is the follow-up to the previously released albums: For Whom the Angels Named (2011, 12”Vinyl), Ladybug EP (2011, 7”Vinyl) and All Are Relative (2009, CD). Devlin has toured, nationally and internationally, for over a decade, performing at past and current NYC music haunts: The Knitting Factory, Shea Stadium Brooklyn, Piano's, Cake Shop, Jalopy Theater, Sidewalk Cafe, Spike Hill, Webster Hall, Muchmore's, Little Skips, The Living Gallery and elsewhere in her home city Brooklyn/NYC. Devlin is a visual artist, poet, singer, multi-instrumentalist and curator of numerous art, music, and literary events including the series: The Highwaymen NYC, Prose By Any Other, and Token Folk Acoustic. Her art and poetry have appeared in Cobramilk Issue 2, The Op**te, Bomb Magazine, We the Tender Hearted and elsewhere. As the Founding Director of Bessie’s, a private artist studio and salon, Devlin hosts art, community, literary and acoustic music events, in Brooklyn. In 2021, Devlin was awarded the Sundress PublicationsShe is the two time recipient of the Common Ground On the Hill, Roots Music & Arts Memorial Scholarship through which, she attended Traditions Music Workshops. Devlin 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. PRESS:
"Elizabeth Devlin, with her haunting combination of lilting voice and enchanting autoharp, is a self-produced NYC singer-songwriter who’s been likened to artists such as Joanna Newsom. Staying away from traditional musical structure with many of her songs, she builds miniature narratives, such as with her new song, "A Chorus Divine,” which she performed for us at her apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn." -Breakthru Radio: Hear & There

"It’s in the way Devlin sings in the same soft, fluttering voice, the way her songs wander without a traditional structure or even a chorus, and the way she paints abstract narratives with lyrics that feel more like poetry than song." -CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

"On Thursday night, for instance, the headliner was Elizabeth Devlin, who sang her densely packed and surreal verses about the stew of being a woman over an autoharp, her little girl’s voice riding coyly over the weirdly discordant harmonies she traced with her hands. (She read Walt Whitman’s poetry between songs.) " -The New York Times: Artsbeat

"First we had Elizabeth Devlin playing a show on her own, high voice and cooool melodies on autoharp, it was like having Pj Harvey playing her latest album at home." -ROCKERPARIS

"'We're into her music right now. She plays Autoharp and her sound has this delicate but engrossing feel. It's like you're seeing her play in a snow globe.'" -L Magazine

"Armed only with an Autoharp, she sings of the loveless and unrequited with the sweetest intonation." -Super Ace, London/UK

"Elizabeth Devlin croons brassy dreams over Autoharp." -TimeOUT NY

"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." -TimeOUT NY