Bio

The Blackberry Bushes are an acoustic string band of five prolific songwriters and multi-instrumentalists from Olympia, WA. Their repertoire of original americana, traditional old-time, and bluegrass music is infused with their love of jazz, indie, punk and alternative styles. They have been dubbed the “Mountain Divas” and “Olympia’s Sirens of Indiegrass”. The Blackberry Bushes sound like a radio from yesteryear thrown into the treetops. They are Persephone and her sirens singing songs you have never heard but always known.

A Blackberry Bushes performance takes the audience on a journey of “Soaring harmonies, delicious lyrics, and toe tapping acoustic grooves...their music is sophisticated and energetic.” The Sounds, 2005 Hotbands.com called them “an up and coming quartet with amazing harmonies.” The Sitting Duck called them a “South Sound Favorite.” Bonded by their love of music, mountains, and canine friends; The Bushes perform regularly in bars, cafes, galleries, radio stations, festivals, acoustic houses, private events and street corners. They performed at The Oregon Country Fair, The Northwest Folklife Festival, and competed in the Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band competition. They tour throughout the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, and California coast.

KAOS 89.3 Olympia charted their first album, Moon Pie, with the College Media Journal in 2005, and charted their sophomore album, Creatures of Habit, number one for the months of July and August 2006.

The Blackberry Bushes aspire to the highest levels of artistry and professionalism in composition and performance. Wherever they perform The Blackberry Bushes have always instigated fun with uncommon ease, and they have been received with true approval.