Ash Devine is an accomplished songwriter, ukulele and guitar player, performance artist, educator, and community-based arts facilitator whose work is influenced by her upbringing in the Blue Ridge mountains, and by her international travels to perform in health care facilities with Patch Adams M.D. Born and raised in the Appalachian region of southwestern VA, Ash Devine lived in Asheville, NC for over 17 years where she developed her songwriting career and delved into her roots in the Appalachian folk music traditions. Ash tours nationally and internationally, performing over 100 shows per year in reputable music venues, festivals, house concerts, health care facilities, and educational settings.

From 2007 to 2014 Ash Devine traveled internationally with activist Patch Adams, M.D. to perform in medical facilities, orphanages, social service centers, and nursing homes. Inspired by Patch and the Gesundheit! Institute, Ash designs and facilitates therapeutic Interactive Music Programs in retirement communities, homes for disabled persons, and other care settings.

In 2015 Ash Devine starred as the legendary Maybelle Carter and musically directed the play Esley: The Life and Music of Leslie Riddle. From 2016-2018 Ash Devine studied Appalachian traditional folk songs from the Western, NC area with Smithsonian Folkways Award winning ballad singer Sheila Kay Adams. In 2018, Devine accompanied a group of WNC Appalachian song carriers to perform at the Library of Congress at the American Folk Life Center in Washington, DC.

In 2023, Devine was an artist in residence for the John C. Campbell Folk School Folklore mentorship program, which focused on the songs and stories collected by Olive Dame Campbell. The songs that Olive Dame Campbell collected in the southern Appalachian region were published by the British scholar and historian Cecil Sharp. 

Ash has a B.A. in Theater and Community Arts from UNC Asheville and is working towards a masters degree in Counselor Education with a focus in arts in health with vulnerable populations. In 2017 Devine studied Gerontology from Appalachian State University, with aim to deepen her ability to provide meaningful music programming for older adults, and inter-generational groups. Over the past fifteen years, Devine has developed a number of inter-generational programs, bringing together youth and older adults for community arts activities. For example, the adult day community folk choir was one such program that successfully engaged older adult participants living with advanced dementia related conditions in meaningful group music activities and performance. Another program, Youth Clowns to Elders, 2016, brought school aged youth to elders living in the institutional setting in order to share in music, arts, and celebratory arts based activities.