Thea Hopkins

• Folk
• Singer/Songwriter

Thea Hopkins is a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha’s Vineyard MA who calls her music Red Roots Americana. She has been described as a “standout writer” by the Washington Post. Her new album, “Blossoms & Ghosts”, released in February 2026, is receiving airplay in the US, Canada and Europe.Thea’s numerous recognitions include The New York Stage and Film Fund’s “Indigenous Voices of The Northeast” artist resident for 2024 and 2025 in support of her play, “An American Ghost Dance”. In June 2019, Thea was  selected by the Western Arts Alliance as a 2019 Native Launchpad Artist, a three-year artist development program. To cap off 2019, Thea was selected for the Wichoie Ahiya Indigenous Singer Songwriter Intensive at the Banff Arts Centre in Alberta, Canada. Thea was a Native Arts and Cultures fellowship recipient in 2017.

Thea first came to wider public notice when Peter, Paul & Mary recorded her song “Jesus Is On The Wire” in 2004, and then again in 2010 with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. It is considered one of their later signature songs. Bob Dylan’s former tour manager, described Thea Hopkins as “k.d. lang meets Leonard Cohen.”