$10Carrie Elkin is a soulful singer with a gypsy spirit, a songwriter
with a keen eye. Inspired by her travels and the many places she has
called home-- Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Boston, Austin--she
documents the human condition with sensitivity and humor, crafting
songs that have garnered attention at prestigious songwriting
contests, including Mountain Stage NewSong and the Falcon Ridge
Emerging Artist Showcase.
Carrie is a born performer, possessing an infectious energy that
cannot be contained. As Maverick Magazine so eloquently put it: "We
have never seen a performer so in love with the act of singing.
Onstage Elkin was simply a force of nature." With her dazzling voice
and unpretentious charm, she wins over new fans at every show, whether
playing at a headlining club gig, singing the national anthem in front
of 20,000 at a Chicago Bulls game or opening for artists like Jesse
Winchester, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Greg Brown.
Although Carrie got her musical start young, singing in church and
playing the saxophone, she lived an extremely diverse and active young
life. She competed as a National Champion acro gymnast, which led to
an eventual invitation to join the circus. Instead, she studied
physiology at Ohio University and became an organic chemist. But music
never left her blood, and the attention she was gaining from her
songwriting quickly stole her away from the academic world, as she
began to record and tour across the country.
After settling in Austin, Texas in 2007, she recorded her album The
Jeopardy of Circumstance. Produced by Colin Brooks (The Band of
Heathens), the album received rave reviews in the US and the UK that
shot her up the Euro-Americana Charts and landed her a spot on Bob
Harris' national BBC Radio show and several prestigious festival
invitations.
Hot on the heels of her recent success, comes Carrie's new album Call
It My Garden. This debut on Grammy-winning folk label Red House
Records was produced by Colin Brooks and Danny Schmidt and features
many of Carrie's close musical friends, including Sam Baker, Raina
Rose, Robby Hecht, AJ Roach, Anthony Da Costa and Storyhill's John
Hermanson.
Supporting her album, Carrie will be on tour throughout the US and
Europe in 2011 and will showcase at the South By Southwest (SXSW)
Music Festival and the International Folk Alliance Conference.
Jeremy Joyce is a Singer-Songwriter-Guitarist who makes his home in
Jazz and Blues but arrived there quite indirectly. He started with
punk and indie-jazz (a la Sea and Cake) in Philadelphia, Americana and
Psych-Folk in Brooklyn, Rockabilly and Blues in Saint Louis.
Studying the music of New Orleans, where he laid his head this past
three years, JOYCE’s brand of ingredients were stewed in her sonic
melting pot. The result is something magical and dark, fresh but
classic. His latest endeavor integrates a multitude of musical
experience into a unified Jazz Noir sound.
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