After a childhood spent in the opera world with the Canadian Children’s Opera Company, pivoted to busking in downtown Toronto when the pandemic closed the doors on live theatre.  Now, she is developing a career in folk music around Ann Arbor, while she pursues a degree in classical voice from the University of Michigan. 

As the daughter of a born-and-bred Canadian and an American peacenik, her multi-instrumental songwriting draws inspiration from both modern and traditional American music, with a mezzo folk tone like Gillian Welch and jazz inclinations reminiscent of Joni Mitchell. Her solo show and upcoming album, “People of the Earth and Sea”, tells stories of people and places within a modern technological world. “I write a lot about the experience of having human emotion within a really alienating post-industrial society,” Ringo says, “so everything is set within that context of fighting against this stasis and this feeling of apathy that is so easy to access right now,  a sort of dulling of the senses”. 

At just 20 years old, she brings a contemporary edge to the timeless music tradition of American folk music, which has quickly brought her to the forefront of the Southeast Michigan folk scene.