East Tennessee native Sarah Pirkle is a multi-instrumentalist, music instructor, and songwriter. She has been teaching private lessons to kids of all ages for nearly 30 years.

She is a 2021 recipient of the South Arts Folk & Traditional Arts Master Artist Fellowship, and also was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame. She was a songwriting instructor at acclaimed Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Camp in 2022. Sarah is the program director and fiddle instructor for the Smoky Mtn. Affiliate of Junior Appalachian Musicians at the Great Smoky Mtn. Heritage Center in Townsend, TN. She has recorded multiple albums with her husband Jeff Barbra, and on her own.