Deb Shebish is a dynamic, nuanced, and versatile fiddler. Her playing conveys a distinctive style with an effortless mastery and infectious joy. She has been on staff at Cumberland Dance Week and Cascade of Music & Dance camps and was a featured artist at the 2025 Sweet Sunny South Festival in the UK and the 2024 Rootsinphytaa Bluegrass Festival in Finland. In 2023, she was awarded the North Carolina Arts Council Folklife Apprentice Grant to study Old-Time music under Travis Stuart of Haywood County, NC.

Originally from Indiana, Deb has been greatly influenced by the old-time and Irish musicians of that region. In 2000, she met Joe Dawson (1928-2012), an old-time fiddler from Bloomington, IN, who grew up deeply immersed in the traditional music of the area. She loves to share his unique style and repertoire that she learned at Joe’s weekly living room jams.

Deb has toured nationally and internationally at venues including Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium with Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh and Ivan Goff; the United States Air Force Academy; Villanova University for the Irish Ambassador to the US; the Kelly House in Philadelphia for the Prince of Monaco; Waterford, Ireland Tall Ships Festival; Bangor, Maine’s Celtic Crossroads Festival; and the Leith Folk Club in Scotland.

Deb is an experienced and enthusiastic workshop presenter and licensed music teacher. She loves teaching fiddle workshops to all ages and works as a public school elementary orchestra teacher during the school year. Read more about her at her website.