Penne Sandbeck

Penne Sandbeck's musical territory is delineated by the heartbeat-like thumb of her Piedmont fingerstyle playing and her clear, innocent-but-weary vocal style. An architectural historian and North Carolina native who now lives in the Virginia Tidewater, Penne brings to her songwriting years of traveling country roads studying small towns, meeting houses, churches, schools, and farmsteads--all the while with Mississippi John Hurt and Etta Baker sharing time in the car stereo alongside folk-rock heroes like Joni Mitchell and Lucinda Williams. Combining her musical influences with her experiences, Penne sings about the South, about pasts and presents, about dreams, and about things that are true...or might be true...or could be true...or should be true.

Locustville, VA