Beth Whitney

“On a fishing trip last fall, I woke one morning early as the fog, feeling unsettled and
untethered. Not wanting to wake Aaron with my mind’s engine turning over and over, I
slipped out and found a place nearby to watch horses swish their tails and nibble fresh
grasses. And I remembered a verse my grandma stitched into a pillow she made. ‘The
Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation.’ (Ps. 118) And all at
once I was settled and tethered, and humming a new melody on an old Psalm. One I’ve
come back to again and again.”

Beth Whitney writes wild orchestral folk from a log cabin built long ago by her
grandparents' own two hands in the seasonally rich mountains just outside
Leavenworth, WA, in the Pacific Northwest. Releasing songs since 2007, Whitney has
toured across the U.S. and garnered millions of streams, most recently releasing her
two part album, Earth & Sky (2025.) Steady rhythms and swelling bows on the upright
bass by her husband, Aaron Fishburn, enrich Beth's vocals, filling the music with
humming strength and earthy resilience.

Born to a poetic carpenter and a singing painter, Beth was raised with her five
siblings on a small farm nestled between cold waters of the Puget Sound and sleepy
foothills of western Washington. Packed in with her brothers and sisters in the family’s
cinnamon Volvo wagon, she remembers dusty days at the ball field, toting goats and
rabbits to the state fair, scribbling poems on scraps of paper, and wandering long
afternoons in the wet woods of Snohomish, Washington, where she was raised.

Beth’s musical journey began unexpectedly. As a competitive athlete in high
school, she wasn’t involved in choir or band, but took up the guitar at 15 when a
compound fracture in her right hand took her out of commission. Disappointed and
sidelined, she found herself sitting in church one Sunday when, between the pews, a
bright-eyed 80-year-old named Leroy approached. He held out a guitar and asked
simply: “Could you use this?” This intuitive gift ignited something in 15-year-old Beth.
“I decided, yes, I would use it.” So with fingers splinted and taped together from the
injury, she put her glove aside and picked up the guitar instead. Soon her scribbled
poems took shape into songs.

Early Career

After high school, a year traveling with a Canadian Mennonite discipleship program, and
a brief stint in Nashville, she settled in at Whitworth College where she eventually reconnected
with Aaron Fishburn, whom she knew from childhood. Though raised on opposite sides of the
state, the pair met when they were 4-years-old at VBS and again throughout childhood when
hiking and rock climbing at summer camp. Although they'd known each other most of their
lives, they'd hardly exchanged a word before one midnight at college when the pair happened
to walk into the double doors of the music building at the same time. Seeing Beth with her
guitar and holding the door open for her, Aaron asked, “Wanna jam?” So the two started
playing music together at fairs and farmer’s markets, and then, of course, married.

The pair continued to perform and found an appreciative ear with Malamute Records in
2007 and recorded Leave Your Shoes which was featured on local Seattle stations such as
90.3 KEXP, and over 250 stations across the US.

Soon after Beth and Aaron married, Yellow was recorded with producer Brandon Bee and
released independently in 2010, as was Ukulele (2012.) Both independent albums were put into
heavy rotation by local AAA stations, won songwriting awards, and paved the way for multiple
west coast tours in an awkward white conversion van they affectionately named, Valcor.

In 2013, after the birth of their son, Beth and Aaron partnered with neighbor and fellow
artist, Bradford Loomis, to write and record a self-titled album, The Banner Days (2013) and Hand Me A Hymnal
(2015.) The collaboration garnered critical acclaim while they toured across the nation including
a performance at the Lincoln Center in New York. The band parted ways the following year
after Aaron and Beth moved to the mountains.

They had their second child in 2017, and a few happy and sleepless months later,
released The Wild Unrest, a seasoned collection of songs with “sweeping dark elegance...and
imagery nothing short of breathtaking” -The Daily Vault.

In February of 2020, Beth and Aaron returned to the studio to record Into The Ground,
and connected with Tone Tree Music who partnered in distributing the album. The album was
featured in American Songwriter, NPR's Roots Down, won Singer Songwriter Album of the Year
for the Indie Acoustic Project, and had song “Wild Roses” placed in the indie film, Adventure
Tom.

The pair returned to the studio in 2024 with long-time producer, Brandon Bee, to record a
two-part album, Earth & Sky, which they released with Wings Music Group in the Spring of
2025. Then in the fall of 2025, they returned to record a handful of Psalms Beth had put to
song.

Highlights:

• TV & film placements (including Wynona Earp, American Gods, and Adventure Tom.)
• Performed extended version of original song with WVS Orchestra
• Climbed to #26 on iTunes New and Notable chart
• Top 25 placement in American Songwriter's Song Contest
• Icicle Prize in Songwriting (1st)
• Numerica's Got Talent (1st)
• Caffe Mela's Battle of the Bards (1st)
• Eddie Owen Presents (1st)
• Newsong Western Region Winner
• Performed at Seattle Folklife, Timbrrr Fest, Mile of Music, Chinook Festival, Lincoln
  Performing Arts Center, Apple Blossom Festival, and others
• Finalist and Semi-Finalist in the International Songwriting Competition
• Over 5 million streams on Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music

Discography:

Leave Your Shoes (2009)
Yellow (2010)
Ukulele EP (2012)
The Banner Days (TBD) (2013)

Hand Me a Hymnal (TBD) (2015)
The Wild Unrest (2017)
Into The Ground (2021)
Earth & Sky (2025)