Ashley Cox

Just as that Ani DiFranco has taken focus on her hometown of Buffalo, singer/songwriter Ashley Cox has helped to determine the music scene in Syracuse, NY. The champion of the Syracuse Region Music Prize (SAMMY) as Greatest New Musician of 1997, Cox continues to be embraced by women’s music aficionados. Raised on her behalf father’s assortment of Ruler Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Fripp & Eno, the authorities, the Roches, the Beatles, and Peter Gabriel information, Cox honed her build as a road performer and during folk music coffeehouse open up mics. Shifting to NEW YORK in the first ’90s, Cox was shortly performing frequently at Catawba University in Salisbury. As phrase of her abilities spread, she obtained every week gigs in Charlotte and Wilmington. Since time for Syracuse, Cox provides increasingly captured the town with her gutsy, multi-octave, vocals. She released her debut record, As Above Therefore Below, on her behalf personal label, Ladybug, in springtime 2000. Cox offers documented with Syracuse-based alternate rock-band the Fun Lovin’ Bad guys.