About Devon Leger

Devon Leger has been working in roots music for about a decade now, as a publicist, music supervisor, freelance writer, and event/festival producer. After getting an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Washington, he became the lead booker for the annual Northwest Folklife Festival (the largest community festival in the nation). While there he worked to connect a new generation of roots musicians with this veteran event. Now he works on his arts promotion agency, Hearth Music, promoting awesome albums, planning concerts, and blogging. In 2013, he created KITHFOLK, a quarterly digital roots music magazine. In his spare time he's studying the nearly-lost traditions of Acadian fiddling, researching the music in archives and tracking down older fiddlers. He also writes for No Depression, The Bluegrass Situation, fRoots, KEXP, Magnet Magazine, TradConnect, and American Standard Time.