Commissions
Aoife O’Donovan
Long time friend and FreshGrass Festival performer Aoife O’Donovan is an American singer and Grammy award-winning songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer for the string band Crooked Still and she also co-founded the Grammy Award-winning female folk trio I'm with Her. She has released multiple critically acclaimed studio and live albums. She also spent a decade contributing to the radio variety shows Live from Here and A Prairie Home Companion. Her first professional engagement was singing lead for the folk group The Wayfaring Strangers.
Composition Commission
Aoife O’Donovan performed All My Friends and newly commissioned songs for chamber orchestra featuring The Westerlies, Brooklyn Youth Chorus (Dianne Berkun Menager, Artistic Director), Rob Burger, Alan Hampton, & Griffin Goldsmith, conducted by Eric Jacobsen at 2023 FreshGrass | North Adams.
In addition, an iteration of this commissioned work was performed at 2024 FreshGrass | Bentonville featuring Hawktail and the University of Arkansas Children’s Choir.
Learn more about this FreshGrass Commission in this short documentary!
FreshScores
Aoife O’Donovan was commissioned to produce and perform original music accompanying the silent film, As It Is in Life (D.W. Griffith, 1910), which debuted live at FreshGrass | North Adams!