Whitney Road is an original musical project that blends Americana, Folk, Country, and Rock genres.   At the heart of Whitney Road is the husband and wife team of Ann Whitney O'Connor and Doug O'Connor.

At 19, New York native Sydney Irving may only be in the early years of her music career, but she has already been named the 2020 young adult artist of the year by the International Singer Songwriters Association and the 2022 Best New Artist at the Syracuse Area Music Awards.

Similar to other contemporary artists, Irving writes songs that mean a lot to her and that she hopes will resonate with others as well. Taylor Swift was her early inspiration, but her current hero is Tom Petty. 

“I think it is just the way they could write a song about their lives and what they were going through,” Irving says, “and you could connect with it immediately.” 

Her musical influences also include artists like Barns Courtney, Midland, Ronnie James Dio, The Doors and perhaps not surprisingly, bad boy Ryan Adams, who actually recorded his own tribute to Swift’s 1989, covering the entire album.