Biography
Darcie Deaville, born in Canada, took up street performing in Toronto upon turning sixteen and then shifted to Phoenix, Arizona in the mid-1980s. An exceptionally skilled fiddler, she also demonstrated mastery of the mandolin and became the first woman as well as the first Canadian entrant in the National Flatpick Championships in Winfield, Kansas. Among her additional distinctions was a songwriting award from the Kerrville New Folk festival. After her debut album Last Hitchhiker on the Lost Highway appeared in 1991, Deaville settled in Austin, Texas and later joined the local alt-country outfit the Meat Purveyors. In 1994 she issued the duet album Ways to Fly alongside singer/songwriter Jane Gillman. Her solo release Tornado in Slo-Mo arrived in 1999, with two further albums on Taller Dog—Plays the Fiddle and Sings in 2004 and Livin' on the Lucky Side in 2007—following during the next decade.
Albums
