Autumn Rhodes is an award-winning and respected multi-instrumentalist, singer, and instructor based in New York City, San Francisco, and County Clare, Ireland - with frequent stints in her hometown in Northern Indiana. She has played Irish music professionally since the age of 13, touring through the United States, Canada, the UK, and Ireland as a solo performer as well as with a variety of ensembles and Irish dance groups. She is highly sought after for festivals, concerts, pub gigs, sessions, presentations, lectures, and music camps.

Autumn's musical journey began at home in Indiana, where her family's stereo was in continuous play with a constant drip of early Chieftains, Bothy Band, Planxty, De Danann, and Dolores Keane. At age 6, she decided she would someday be an uilleann piper. At age 13, she took the first step into the Irish musical worldby being gifted a tin whistle. As there was little else to do in Amish country, she took to it obsessively.

Within the year, she became an integral part of the South Bend, Indiana folk music scene, learning from Kim Hoffmann and John Kennedy. She took up the flute (under tutelage of Chicago's Laurence Nugent and John Williams and with much mentoring from Kevin Henry), and later became distracted by the concertina, bouzouki, and finally, the uilleann pipes.

 In her teens and 20s, she was involved in bands such as Soltré, Míra, Kennedy's Kitchen, The Bardic Apostles, Na Cailíní, Edington, Barton, & Rhodes, Míra, and Slaggy Maggie. 

Starting in her mid-20s, she was based in the San Francisco region, playing with The Wren Boys and the Jammy Dodgers, The Emperor Norton Céilí Band, Gránna, and Buncrana. She is the founder and bandleader of the Golden Gate Céilí Band, who was one of the headlining acts at the 2022 Comhaltas North American Convention.  

She has also collaborated with Julie Henigan, Tim Hill, Paul Chaffee and Amelia Hogan, in addition to work with Irish dance shows such as Christmas in Killarney, Kaleidoscope, Celtic Fire, and Siamsa le Chéile.

She has been an instrcutor at Lark Camp, Redwood Music Camp, Redwood Teen Camp, and she has been a staff musician at Catskills Irish Arts Week.

She is currently working on her first album, which will feature tunes collected by Chief O'Neill in his correspondence with musicians in San Francisco.

Her current musical projects include Colúr (an Irish dance and music trio also featuring Maldon Meehan and Ben Roberts), The Jammy Dodgers (with Darcy Noonan and Richard Mandel), and The Bog Violets (with Liz Hanly and Anna Colliton).