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AOIFE O’DONOVAN
Aoife O’Donovan
America, Come
Saturday
Oct 10, 2026
7:30 PM
Winston-Salem Symphony
Winston-Salem Choral Academy
Michelle Merrill Conductor
GRAMMY winning singer/songwriter Aoife O’Donovan brings her flavorful blend of folk, roots, and bluegrass to Winston-Salem for this electrifying, one-night-only event. Featuring girls from the Winston-Salem Choral Academy chorus, enjoy the poignant, suffrage movement-inspired song cycle “America, Come” plus other favorites from her latest release, All My Friends.
Sat
Oct 10
7:30 PM
Venue
Reynolds Auditorium
301 N. Hawthorne Rd.
Winston-Salem, NC 27104
Rideshare and Dining
Aoife O’Donovan
Aoife O’Donovan is a Grammy-award winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose music radiates with a timeless charm and contemporary allure beyond genre. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Aoife (pronounced EE-fa) began her musical journey at a young age, eventually blossoming into a celebrated artist known for her captivating vocals and heartfelt compositions. With a diverse range of influences, including folk, bluegrass, and indie rock, O’Donovan’s distinctive sound weaves together intricate melodies and introspective lyrics. She gained widespread recognition as a founding member of the progressive folk band Crooked Still and the folk trio I’m With Her (with bandmates Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz).
Deemed “a vocalist of unerring instinct” by the New York Times, O’Donovan has released four critically-acclaimed and boundary-blurring solo albums: Fossils, In the Magic Hour, Age Of Apathy, and All My Friends. O’Donovan has received 10 Grammy nominations (including 2 Best Folk Album nominations for her solo work) and was awarded Folk Alliance International’s Song Of The Year for her song “B61”. I’m With Her’s second studio album Wild and Clear and Blue (2025) saw the band take home two Grammy Awards (Best Folk Album and Best American Roots Song for “Ancient Light”) and Folk Alliance International’s Artist of the Year and Album of the Year.
O’Donovan continues to enchant audiences worldwide with her soul-stirring music and unwavering passion for storytelling through song. She is the featured vocalist on The Goat Rodeo Sessions (the group with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile), performed with over a dozen symphonies including the National Symphony Orchestra, written for Alison Krauss and spent a decade as a regular contributor to the radio variety shows “Live From Here” and “A Prairie Home Companion”.
Michelle Merrill, conductor
WSS Music Director Michelle Merrill served four years as the Assistant and then Associate Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and also serves as the Music Director of the Coastal Symphony of Georgia, where she has ignited the growth and expansion of the orchestra’s offerings both on and off the stage. Ms. Merrill is a proud recipient of a 2016 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award as well as the prestigious 2013 Ansbacher Conducting Fellowship as awarded by members of the Vienna Philharmonic and the American Austrian Foundation, which enabled her to be in residence at the world-renowned Salzburg Festival.