- From Wimberley, Texas (near Austin).
- Began singing at two, playing piano at six, took up the mandolin at ten. She also plays plays clawhammer banjo and guitar.
- 2009, released first solo project Song Up In Her Head (Sugar Hill) at age 18.
- 2010, enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
- 2011, released Follow Me Down album (Sugar Hill).
- 2014, released Build Me Up From Bones album (Sugar Hill).
- 2016, released Undercurrent album (Sugar Hill).
- 2017, won two Grammy Awards, one in the Best Folk Album category for Undercurrent album (Sugar Hill) and another in the Best American Roots Performance category for “House of Mercy” from the same album.
- 2017, began touring and recording with Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan as “I’m With Her.”