Amanda Pascali

Internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter and 2019 Kerrville Festival New Folk Finalist, Amanda Pascali was born in Queens, New York and is based in Houston, Texas. Amanda's 'Immigrant American Folk Music' showcases her traditional influences, but she is no copy of anyone. As the daughter of an Eastern European refugee, Amanda writes with a sincerity which shows us that home is truly where the heart is. Accompanied by upright bass player James Kesley Richardson and violinist Addison Freeman, she has released music and performed internationally, carrying with her the revolutionary passion and poetry of a young girl growing up in the United States.

In early 2020, Amanda partnered with Music to Life, an organization started by Paul Stookey of the 1960s folk band Peter, Paul, and Mary to act as a music activist in an effort to provide basic resources for new immigrants and refugees in Texas. Her music, as it has been performed for packed houses in Italy and Romania as well as in the United States, delivers a powerful narrative on being “too foreign for here, too foreign for home, and never enough for both.”