In this photo from February 16, 2024, provided by Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters, Flynn is pictured on on lead vocals and acoustic guitar, Nancy Luca on electric guitar, Carmen Paradise on bass, Kat Fountain on harmonica and Leila Chieko on drums.
Courtesy Christine Lupo/Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters
Ashleigh Flynn is a long time Portland musician who was primarily a solo artist for much of her career. But that all changed in 2015 when a friend introduced her to Nancy Luca, who had an all-female cover band. She and Luca hit it off and drew other women into a new all-female band: Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters, an homage to Rosie the Riveter, the WWII-era icon of female power and can-do spirit.
The band is celebrating 10 years of making Americana music that embraces joy and creativity as a facet of resistance with a new album called “Good Morning Sunshine,” which drops this week. The band will play a record release concert at Mississippi Studios in Portland on Saturday, April 5, before they hit the road on tour.
Flynn joins us in studio with Luca and other members of the band to play a few songs and give us a sneak peek of the album.
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