Introduction
Silvia Passiflora
Silvia Passiflora is a Southern Gothic Folk poet-songwriter and Grammy®-considered artist, who guides listeners with ukulele, banjo, and spoken word offering safe passage past life's cliffhangers.
Her debut poetry collection, Aurora Cantus: A Poet's Book of Hours released June 2026 by Scriptaluna Press. Parables of the Domestic Wild is forthcoming Winter 2026.
Moving fluidly between original songs and spoken word, with a catalog expansive enough to transform with the room, sets may arrive percussive and driving or intimate and fingerpicked. From quiet rooms to street corners and festival stages, each performance — with no two the same — captures the electricity between story and the crowd leaning in to hear.
OVERVIEW
~ Genre: Southern Gothic Folk · Spoken Word
~ Location: Based in Nashville & Atlanta · Performing across the Southeast from Athens to Charleston
FOR FANS OF
~ (Music) Mon Rovîa, Rhiannon Giddens, Gillian Welch ~ listen to albums
~ (Poetry) Mary Oliver, Ada Limon, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou ~ read
A GOOD FIT FOR LISTENING ROOMS, RADIO, FESTIVAL STAGES, BOTANICAL GARDENS
~ Website: silviapassiflora.com
~ Contact: Silvia Passiflora contact page
~ Press Kit: Full artist bio, performance videos, downloadable assets, tech riders
~ Download One Sheet PDF: download one sheet pdf
~ Booking 30–75 minute sets for upcoming Fall/Winter 2026
~ Booking: Silvia Passiflora contact page
SOCIAL MEDIA
~ Active multi-platform presence (links in footer)
~ Links
PRESS
~ PRESS COPY
Music Festivals & Venues
Silvia Passiflora is a Southern Gothic Folk poet-songwriter whose barn-burner ukulele and banjo sets transform stages into front-porch revivals.
Poetry Festivals & Literary Programs
Silvia Passiflora’s spoken-word-forward performances weave narrative, rhythm, and lyric minimalism, offering audiences an experience that moves between poem and song.
~ PRESS HIGHLIGHTS BELOW ↓
About
About Silvia Passiflora
Born in the Philippines and carried to Hawai'i's shores, Passiflora grew up among gardens and kitchens, learning patience, craft, and the quiet discipline of observation. Classically trained in a James Beard kitchen, certified master gardener, certified sommelier and meticulous keeper of metadata, she gathers each discipline like heirloom seeds, carrying them into her creative life on stage and in the studio.
Mural artwork by Kelsey Montague, Nashville
Press
Trusted for extended airtime and repeat invitations, with work that sustains attention across live rooms and broadcast.
"Whimsical original songs about cornbread, passionfruit, and hurricane femme fatales."
Atlanta Magazine — Best of ATL 2022 Blues Ukulele & Hip Hop
Featured with a full-page photo in the year-end issue — her first year performing publicly as a billed artist. Before the albums and the road came calling.
Photo by Ben Rollins for Atlanta Magazine.
"Silvia and Stephen offered astonishing displays of technical virtuosity."
— Professor Lee Furey, University of Georgia | Bibliotech Books Atlanta — April 2026
Silvia Passiflora was featured in a curated reading at Bibliotech Books — selected by and earning an academic endorsement from University of Georgia English professor and poet Lee Furey.
"You have me dancing in my chair here."
— Kevin Edwards, Host, Appalachian Artists Live, WEHC 90.7 FM Emory, VA — Aired March 31, 2026
Silvia Passiflora was the first ukulele songwriter invited for a full one-hour set on the program. Thirteen originals performed live, including world premieres of unreleased songs. A return invitation followed.
"She's a songwriter's songwriter… creates music that's unforgettable."
— The Get Up Nashville / Savio Productions — Nov 9, 2024
Silvia Passiflora was selected for The Get Up, a high-volume Nashville songwriter showcase presenting up to 15 artists per night at multiple venues across Music City. Within that scale, her work stood out — registering with hosts and rooms that have seen it all.
Featured Guest on the Piedmont Report (Episode #146 , December 30, 2024) specializing in music, past and present, from the Piedmont region,
along with tips for vegetable gardening and sustainable living, with host and Atlanta music preservationist and blues musician Daniel “Mudcat” Dudeck.
Curated into Best of Hoopoe Acres Live series (Episode #157, January 29, 2026)
"'T'was a pleasure." — Daniel "Mudcat" Dudeck, Host
"Don't miss out on this artist's steamy take on Southern love ballads."
— Shoes Off Entertainment co-presented with Musicana Latin-American Musicians' Collective — May 8, 2024
Silvia Passiflora was selected for a curated songwriter showcase by Shoes Off Entertainment, co-presented with Musicana Latin-American Musicians’ Collective — a cross-cultural lineup aligned with her Filipina heritage at the meeting point of Southeast Asia and Spanish influence. Catholic hymnals alongside island percussion, with folk traditions that do not map cleanly onto any single region.
"I think you're amazing. I love what you do. I love how unique you are."
— WRAS Album 88 Sessions, Georgia State University — taped November 18, 2022, aired December 10, 2022
An hour-long feature with original songs and interview.
Radio & Podcasts
Featured on college and community radio from Atlanta to Appalachia in hour-long and return segments, earning extended airtime and repeat invitations with work that sustains attention across live rooms and broadcast.
~ WEHC 90.7 FM (2026)
Appalachian Artists Live, Emory, VA
Full hour broadcast, taped March 29, 2026, aired March 31, 2026
One hour, 13 originals (including unreleased premieres)
Returning March 14, 2027 for a live in-studio performance
Full-hour debut broadcast, 13 originals
Downtown Crazy, original song 3:29
Hurricane Lily, original song 2:13
Moon Pillow, original song 3:39
Chicken Roulette , original song, clip 0:53
~ WRFG 89.3 FM (2024)
Happy Grass (A Bluegrass Program), Atlanta, GA
Three full-hour feature sets and return invitations
Interview clip, November 27, 2024, 0:56
Performance clip with banjo, original song, March 27, 2024, 1:05
Pokeberry Letter, February 21, 2024, 3:21
Listen to the Full show, February 21, 2024, starting at 1:03:00
~ The Piedmont Report Podcast (2024 and 2026 encore Best of Edition)
Long-running regional music and gardening podcast
hosted by bluesman Daniel "Mudcat" Dudeck, Atlanta GA
Episode 146 · December 30, 2024 Listen to the Piedmont Report Podcast
Espisode 157 · January 29, 2026 Listen to the Best of Live Hoopoe Acres #7
~ WRAS 88.5 FM (2022)
Album 88, College Radio at Georgia State University, Atlanta GA
Over one hour of songs and interview
Streamed November 18, 2022
Listen to the full broadcast, all originals and interview, 1:16:00
~ WABE 90.7 FM (2022)
City Lights with Lois Reitzes, aired March 4, 2022, Atlanta, GA
Listen to 09:43 to 11:05
Listen to the WABE Archive
Venues & Appearances
Establishing her regional footprint from virtual house concerts and global ukulele challenges to listening rooms, festivals, and touring circuits across the Southeast, Silvia Passiflora’s performances span Nashville, Atlanta, Charleston, Memphis, Birmingham, Athens, and New Orleans.
~ Current appearances
~ Appearance history from 2020 to the present Past appearances
Contact now for calendar openings.
Photo credits: Silvia Passiflora
Touring Assets
Tech and Hospitality Rider / W-9 Form
Tech Rider: See Stage Plot above for Silvia with 2 band members. Solo stage plot available upon request.
Hospitality Rider: Artist travels in a high-clearance van (10 ft. high and 22 ft. long) and requests a safe, legal, flat parking location with clear departure access. Artist is otherwise self-sufficient and flexible.
U.S passport valid; carnet-ready for international gear transport.
W-9 Form, Rights Clearance, Event Insurance, and Standard Booking Agreement: available upon request. Silvia Passiflora contact page
Before we work together: To ensure accurate tagging and metadata across all platforms, Silvia Passiflora requires preferred handles, tags, and venue/station naming conventions prior to each session or event. Photo and video rights clearance for artist-captured content is also requested in advance.
Résumé
In the stillness of 2020, when the world went quiet, Silvia Passiflora picked up an ukulele — and her multiple life passions found unified expression. What began as a 100-day challenge became the first door. Her encore, her 101st song, was her first original composition: "Cicada Serenade."
Below is her official résumé, where every accomplishment traces back to that beginning.
