Michelle Raybourn

City Winery Presents Michelle Raybourn on November 21st at 7:00pm

Michelle Raybourn is an Americana/Bluegrass singer-songwriter originally from Dallas, TX who has made her home in Nashville, Tennessee since graduating from Belmont University in 2023. Beginning to take her writing more seriously in high school, she recorded in Dallas with Milo Deering, a touring musician with Don Henley who also produced her subsequent first record Songs I Wrote this Year and following singles.

During her time at college, she was a member of the Bluegrass Ensemble for 3 years and traveled around the country performing standards and her own originals with this talented group of performers, which proudly boasts alumni in bands such as the Arcadian Wild, Downriver Collective, and Zach & Maggie. While a member of the group, she got to hone her craft and write songs for the band to play at their performances at Belmont and beyond. Most notably, her original “Holding the Hope”, which she cowrote with her hero and friend, Andy Gullahorn, was featured at Belmont’s President’s Concert, which is held for attenders and donors every spring on campus in the Fisher Center, with the Bluegrass Ensemble backed up by an entire string section.

Additionally, while at Belmont, she began attending Reformed University Fellowship and began leading worship there on Tuesday nights, which led her into her current vocation at City Church of East Nashville as their Worship Director. As well as beginning church work, her voice has joined with those who have gone before her in Indelible Grace, which is the music group that has remarkably flourished from this. Most recently, she was a featured vocalist on their live record “Bright Hope for Tomorrow” that celebrated the 50th anniversary of RUF in Memphis, Tennessee in 2023.

In her upcoming release, “Natural Disaster”, Michelle is expectant to bring her worlds together of family, faith, and folk music on this record, exploring the landscape of womanhood, making sense of the harm that has been handed down, and finding healing for the wounds of being a human in the world. She hopes that these songs can be a gift to those who take in her project, as they have been to her in getting to sit with and write.