Woodyfest 2019: Carolann Solebello

Carolann Solebello

Red Molly cofounder Carolann Solebello per­formed an (Sidenote: This is the tenth post in our cov­er­age of the twenty-​second annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. We’ll be alter­nat­ing our report­ing with essays and photo gal­leries from the six­teenth fes­ti­val in 2013, so check in often for a mix of old and new Woodyfest good­ness.) inti­mate solo set on the Crystal Theatre Stage dur­ing Woodyfest 2019. The small audi­ence attend­ing the mid-​morning per­for­mance were treated to songs that blended rural folk tra­di­tions with Solebello’s dis­tinctly urban rhyth­mic sen­si­bil­ity, pep­pered in between with pithy, humor­ous anecec­dotes.

Since the dis­so­lu­tion of Red Molly, Solebello has alter­nated between solo per­for­mance and tour­ing with mod­ern folk quar­tet No Fuss and Feathers. She is a mem­ber of New York City’s Jack Hardy Songwriters’ Exchange and the win­ner of numer­ous musi­cal awards, includ­ing first-​place at the 2011 Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival (MD) and the 2015 Musicians on a Mission Songwriting Contest (NJ).

Solebello’s most recent album, Shiver, is out now.

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