Wildwood Sirens

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Weaving the stories of women through appalachian-inspired music

Wilwood Sirens is a collection of women from different backgrounds who have all found inspiration in the music of Appalachia. By weaving together their different experience and styles they create a sound that incorporates strong roots and bluegrass influences, but can also summon a modern alt/indie spirit. Always with haunting harmonies running through the music, The Wildwood Sirens raise their voices together in a lived tribute to womanhood and partnership in the creative process.

The Wildwood Sirens has a rotating cast of women, and each show is different. These are some of the women you might hear…

Skye Pixton

Vocals | Banjo | Guitar

Skye Pixton is a singer/songwriter from Portland, Oregon with a background mainly in vocal classical, folk, and jazz music. She arrived in North Carolina deep in the midst of a musical hiatus with four small children at home, but was shortly introduced to the rich local heritage of Appalachian music. She took off her apron and took up the banjo, which now competes with the guitar for her main accompanying instrument.

Skye has played with varied musical groups such as Sibling Revelry, The Skye Pixton Band, and the Cantico Singers, and she has won multiple awards and honors for her songwriting. Since taking up bluegrass in North Carolina she has played with Carolina Sky, Pity the Unicorn, and now The Wildwood Sirens.

Kelly Dansby

Vocals | Guitar

Kelly Dansby was raised listening in on some of the best bluegrass and old time weekly jams in Asheville NC. She spent her childhood singing rounds and harmonies with her sister to the Appalachian folk tunes passed down by her mother, and honed her skills with a lively church choir in the midst of a community rich with strong creative women.

Kelly has been playing music in Raleigh for several years, and is one of the founders and creative forces behind the “Free the Mic” creative platform based at Lucky Tree Cafe. She is thrilled to have found a culture of strong, creative women with the new female music collaborative, Wildwood Sirens.

Lindsey Frey

Vocals | Guitar | Fiddle

Caroline Tanner

Vocals | Guitar | Banjo

Caroline Tanner is from western Canada, and learned clawhammer banjo in British Columbia before she moved to North Carolina. She has played with locally popular groups such as Magnolia Still, Carolina Sky, and currently Wyldwood. She is excited to be collaborating in an all female project with Wildwood Sirens!

Sarah Hollis

Vocals | Fiddle

Sarah Hollis is from Greenville, North Carolina and grew up playing bluegrass fiddle with her family, the ______. She has studied voice and violin across many genres, and recently graduated from ECU with a degree in music education and violin performance. Sarah has played in traditional country, bluegrass, and folk bands throughout her musical career. She currently teaches elementary general music at Wahl-Coates School of the Arts and works with Wyldwood string band, doing fiddle and vocals.