Dacey Orr Sivewright is a writer, editor, and producer based in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dacey Orr Sivewright is a writer, editor, and producer based in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dacey Orr Sivewright is a writer, editor, and project manager based in Charleston, South Carolina. For nearly five years, she worked as the digital editor at Garden & Gun Magazine, an award-winning magazine covering the best of the South, where she contributed to online and print editorial work and assisted with social media, newsletters, and online production. During her time at the lifestyle magazine, she interviewed Amanda Shires for the August/September 2018 cover, talked Sinatra with Willie Nelson, dished on college-town dives with Tennessee legend Phillip Fulmer, and assembled hotdogs at Atlanta institution The Varsity.
Before Garden & Gun, Dacey got her start in the music industry. Internships in video at Paste Magazine and in social media marketing at AC Entertainment gave her valuable experience before she graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2012, and she spent the summer after college on the road with Kenny Chesney’s stadium tour, learning the high-pressure ins and outs of event management as a VIP coordinator for CID Entertainment.
In August 2012 Dacey returned home to Atlanta, Georgia for a role as the multimedia editor at Paste Magazine, a music and culture website with a monthly audience of five million. In addition to managing an editorial calendar, securing publishing rights for weekly music downloads, and working with a roster of freelance writers and photographers, she booked and produced videos and events all across the country. In 2013, she helmed forty-four concerts over four days at her first South By Southwest—sets from then-unknowns like The 1975 alongside legends like The Animals’ Eric Burdon made it one to remember, but marathon recording sessions like that one became the norm, from soul-satisfying performances at Newport Folk Festival to on-the-fly recordings at Forecastle Festival and whirlwind summers booking and producing concerts for the Live at Aloft Hotels series. On top of her day-to-day A/V duties at Paste, Dacey contributed longform cover stories on Chris Stapleton and Eric Church, caught up with her hero Dolly Parton, charted the rise of future Grammy-winning artist Kacey Musgraves (twice!), and showed off an embarrassingly discerning taste for cheap beer along the way. She left Paste in 2015 to pursue freelance writing and event production, kicking things off by spending six weeks on the road with Kendrick Lamar and going on to contribute to the Village Voice, Stereogum, Consequence of Sound, VICE, Nashville Scene, and more before moving to Charleston in winter 2016 and joining the team at G&G.