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The brightest young star on the Bellingham music scene has to be Ashley Douglas, the uber-talented singer/songwriter seen recently opening shows between here and Tacoma for Vicci Martinez, Walter Trout, The Paperboys, and Marion Weston Band. Quite an accomplishment for the soon-to-be senior in high school! “Playing music is all I want to do”, Ashley said to me recently, and if those feelings hold for any great length of time, I think she’s destined to make quite a mark on the musical world.

Ashley’s songwriting can be youthful and fun, no surprise there, but it also has deep and prophetic, even instructional moments that, like the rich and vibrant emotions of her voice, belie her young age. With hardly any formal musical instruction, she has tapped in to a wealth of natural talent that is serving her very well. She seems totally unafraid to face the audience and share the emotions of her lyric thoughts, and when she reaches down deep, her voice is impossible to ignore. It grabs hold of you and demands your attention like few voices that I’ve heard anywhere lately. She can sing with a passion normally associated with many more years of life experiences than it seems she could have had by now. I have watched Ashley turn a room full of talkers into a silent concert hall on a number of occasions… an impressive achievement for a musician of any age. Now, with the help of those around her, including generous Wild Buffalo House of Music sponsorship of her guitar lessons with local instructor Sher Vadinska, the potential for real musical greatness could be within Ashley’s reach.
---by Roger Mills w/ Entertainment News NW-August ’08 issue

***Ashley D. was also interviewed in The Bellingham Herald article August 17th, 2008 (you can find it in her BLOG section) and is looking forward to her article in the Seattle Times!*** MySpace Profile Editor!