East Tennessee native Sarah Pirkle is a multi-instrumentalist, music instructor, and songwriter. In 2021 she was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, songwriting category. She is a 2021 recipient of the South Arts Folk & Traditional Arts Master Artist Fellowship She is the program director and fiddle instructor for 2 affiliates of Junior Appalachian Musicians in the Knoxville region. She has one album of recorded music on her own “Walking Tall Thru High Weeds”, a trio project with the Naughty Knots “12 Songs in the Pan”, and 4 albums of almost exclusively original music recorded with her husband Jeff Barbra, “Dog Year, Barb Hollow Sessions, Family Singing, Sweet Creation”.