If a Sept.19 performance at downtown Asheville’s Altamont Theater is any indication, the group did well during a recent jaunt.

Underhill Rose, an Asheville-based female Americana trio, just completed a three-week tour overseas. In November , the trio played 13 shows in venues that included the Strule Arts Center in Northern Ireland, the Hut in Colby, England, and the Green Note in London. Accompanying the group, on occasion,  was Jonas and Joan, a British folk duo.

Locally, Underhill Rose played four shows by itself to produce fodder for a live CD at the Altamont Sept. 19-20. All of the members of the trio are songwriters.

This reviewer took in the early show on Sept. 19 and, with the exception of excessive breaks for tuning, found it highly enjoyable.

Taking the spotlight first was Eleanor Underhil, playing an open-backed banjo and occasionally blowing into a harmonica. She played her “East Asheville Hardware,” a song some members of the packed 200-seat house seemed to be familiar with already.

Underhill, whose harmonica sound resembles that of Neil Young’s, played several more of her tunes, mostly ones about failed relationships.

Guitarist Molly Rose, by way of contrast, sang upbeat love songs that she had written — and talked glowingly of her recent wedding.

Stand-up bassist Salley Williamson did her part, too, performing her “We’ve Got Your Back”  and closing the 90 minute set by  purring out a version of the Nancy Sinatra hit “These Boots Are Made for Walking.”

Instrumental mastery and rich three-part vocal harmonies highlighted the trio’s show, featuring music that has been described by one music journalist as “a dazzling fusion of country, bluegrass and pop with even an inflection of Tin Pan Alley blues.”

Underhill Rose was founded between classes at Warren Wilson College in 2009, when Underhill and Rose met and then sang an impromptu version of “Angel From Montgomery,” a John Prine song.

The first all-original material Underhill Rose CD appeared in 2011; it and two subsequent releases were ofered for sale Sept. 19 in the Altamont upstairs lobby. Business was brisk, as it was in the downstairs bar.

The Underhill Rose show also included “One Time a Year” — a Williamson song making the case that the holidays are the time to break off from busy schedules to spend time with family and friends. It’s the current Underhill Rose single and a part of the proceeds from its sales goes to Women to Women International, a charity reportedly close to the members’ hearts.

The Novembers engagements were the second swing through Ireland and Great Britain for the trio.

With a performance on PBS under its belt, Underhill Rose also is receiving regional radio airplay. 

Several of the trio’s songs have made the charts of  the Roots Music Report and of the American Music Association.