DEB SHEBISH is a dynamic and nuanced fiddler.  Her playing conveys a distinctive style with an effortless mastery and infectious joy.  Deb has toured nationally and internationally including the 2026 Festival Herbe Bleu in France, the Green Parrot Festival in Cologne Germany, the 2025 Sweet Sunny South American Old-Time Music Festival in West Sussex, UK in collaboration with Vera van Heeringen, and the 2024 Rootsinphytaa Bluegrass festival in Finland.

Deb was awarded the 2023 North Carolina Arts Council Folklife Apprentice Grant to study Old-Time music under Travis Stuart of Haywood County, North Carolina.  Following this grant partnership, Deb and Travis have toured nationally and internationally, headlining festivals in France, Finland, and the UK.  

Deb fell in love with Old-Time and Irish fiddling in Bloomington, Indiana in 1998 and was greatly influenced by the musicians she met there.  In 2000, she met Joe Dawson, (1928-2012), an old-time fiddler from south-central Indiana who grew up deeply immersed in the traditional music of the area.  She loves to share his unique style and repertoire that she learned at Joe's weekly living room jams. 

Nashville's Ryman Auditorium with Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh and Ivan Goff,  the United States Air Force Academy, Villanova University for the Irish Ambassador to the US, the Kelly House in Philadelphia for the Prince of Monaco, Waterford, Ireland Tall Ships Festival, Bangor, Maine's Celtic Crossroads Festival, and the Leith Folk Club in Scotland.  

Deb is an experienced dance fiddler and has been on staff at CDSS camps including Pinewoods American Week, Cumberland Dance Week, and Cascade Camp of Music and Dance.  

In addition to her performing, Deb is a licensed K-12 music teacher and works with students