Known primarily for her fiery fiddling, Darcie Deaville is also a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Originally from Canada, she now lives in Austin, Texas, where she has built a reputation as a fine studio player and side-person with the likes of Ray Wylie Hubbard, Eliza Gilkinson, The Austin Lounge Lizards, Tish Hinojosa, Peter Rowan, John McEuen, Butch Hancock, Ani di Franco and others.

• “Darcie Deaville gets some of the cleanest, richest, fullest, and rounded sound on a fiddle of anyone playing.” -- allmusic.com

A Toronto native, Darcie has led a gypsy-like life, living all over North America, each new place adding another ingredient into her potent musical gumbo. Darcie is first and foremost a musician as is evident by her competence not only on fiddle, but on guitar, octave mandolin and mandolin as well. She delights audiences with her high energy and charming stage presence. Her songs are built around tunes, with strong melodies sung in her beautiful “high lonesome” voice. Her lyrics are straightforward and honest with an emphasis on storytelling. Simply put, Darcie Deaville is a musical powerhouse, whether playing, writing, teaching or lending her talent to any number of sessions.

She has toured extensively in the US, Canada, Italy, Mexico and Germany and won the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Songwriter Competition. She has released four albums: The Last Hitchhiker on the Lost Highway, Ways to Fly, Tornado in Slo Mo, and Darcie Deaville Plays Fiddle and Sings. She has also worked as musical director, actor and musician on off-Broadway theatre productions including “Woody Guthrie's American Song,” “Cotton Patch Gospel” and “Always Patsy Cline.” She has done fiddle workshops and folk music programs, demonstrating regional fiddle styles and folk songs from North America to young audiences.

• Intelligent, warmly satisfying and touching. At home on an assortment of instruments, Darcie Deaville is not to be overlooked....” — New York Times
• “[Darcie] shows a talent for songwriting and storytelling on a par with Rory Block and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Clearly, Deaville is one to watch.” — Kerry Dexter, Dirty Linen
• “It's difficult to say who is the star here, the fiddle or the vocals. I'd say the fiddle! Darcie is a pro; she seems to have an automatic nimble, breathing connection all the way from her brain through her arm into the fiddle bow [...] [her voice] gives the songs not only words, but also strength and credibility; it contrasts and mingles with the fluidly abrupt and often equally stark fiddle line.” — The Colombia Gypsy
• “Her lyrics are flinchingly straightforward, delivered with no wry detachment or ironic distance whatsoever and it's in the stories told that Deaville leaves her mark on the listener. -- Austin Chronicle