She sings like she's 30 and sounds like a cross between Wynonna Judd and Patsy Cline - a killer voice."
Chick Rose, Wintergrass Youth Bluegrass Coordinator
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"It's when she opens her mouth to sing that jaws drop. Her voice is so mature that when she belts out a standard such as "I Fall to Pieces," it sounds as if she swallowed Patsy
Cline."
Eric Mortenson, "The
Oregonian"
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| .. described her voice as "extraordinary, very mature and powerful."
Patrice O'Neill, Wintergrass Bluegrass Festival
Director and Co-Founder
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"When
I grow up, I want to sing like Athena and play bass like
Tristan, then I'd be my own band!"
Kathy Boyd,
"No
Strings Attached"
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| "One
group of young players I am specifically excited about is
Athena and The River City Boys... Their music reveled a skill
and experience that belies their age and a confidence and
potential that should enable them to enlarge their fan base...
The core Wintergrass folks and inveterate pickers have known
about these folks for awhile. Now the rest of us grass and
country folk can climb on board and expand our houses of
music."
Percy Hilo, "Victory
Review"
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people at the campsite next to us tuned up their instruments
and started tearing into some fast bluegrass tune. The girl's
voice was clear, brassy, and warm. A fiddle wove a melodic
line around the vocals ... I looked over and was surprised to
see three kids that looked like they were a year away from
becoming teenagers".
Adrian Wulff,
"Bona
Fide Country"
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" Athena & the River City Boys are astounding. Her voice is clear, strong and appealing, and it has to be to rate with the music she makes with Martin and 13-year-old Tristan Schumacher from Gresham, Ore. They are all multi-instrumentalists.
Rick Nelson, "The News
Tribune"
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