We just had a fabulous show in December at Detroit’s Cadieux Cafe with our band, The Carolyn Striho Group, and Scott Dailey and I are being featured with many Detroit bands on NBC/WDIV Channel 4 Live in the D Christmas Special, being broadcast right near Christmas. Broadcast date coming soon !
I also have been asked to perform for Girls Rock Detroit and their holiday concert fundraiser on Friday night, December 22nd, at 630 pm with a great lineup of Michigan and Detroit musicians, songwriters/singers and performers. Join us in downtown Detroit at The Tin Roof Detroit club (next to Comerica Park) on 12/22/23 for a big night with young teens joining us with singing as well! More details here at https://www.girlsrockdetroit.org
The year is ending and we DO have the new music here. It’s coming out in 2024, as we couldn’t quite make the deadline this month. However, it does sound so good that we are really excited and honored for you to hear it in a month or so! And thanks to everyone involved! I’m glad to have my new material out soon, and Scott and I have worked in the studio again recently with more writing.
I promise a longer update and the next ones will be including new music – soon!
Love, and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and stay healthy xx Carolyn x
Thank you for the Birthday wishes! So sweet! And good news – the new music is ready! Recorded and mixed here at Inner Door Music with drums at Pearl Sound in Canton Michigan and mastered at Third Man Records, Cass Corridor in Detroit, it’s going to be soon now! ) https://thirdmanrecords.comhttps://www.pearlsoundstudios.com So hopefully, my next post has one of our new songs included in it where you can listen or download as a bonus! In the meantime, get in the mood for the holiday with a reggae-tinged version of “Silent Night” we recorded for NBC Channel 4 in Detroit’s Live in the D ) See below )
Also, Erin Zindle and are honored to be on The Grammy Awards 2024 First ballot for Best American Roots Song and Best Performance, too. We found out our Michigan musicians The War & Treaty and Billy Strings, in the same category, are nominated for the Final ballot, which is awesome! Congratulations!
We are performing at the J Center /Berman Center for author Gary Graff’s Alice Cooper book this Saturday evening, November 11 at 7:30 pm. Scott Dailey, Michael Bermudez and I are looking forward to a superb night with other artists including Tino Gross and Righteous Deluxe. Details: https://www.michigan.org/event/alice-cooper-75-author-talk-and-tribute-performances
Then the next day, we’re performing at The Farmington Hills Public Library in Farmington Hills ! We are rocking the library at 2 pm before the Detroit Lions Game at 4 pm so you can join us and still make it home to see the game – Join Scott Dailey and me for some new music, poetry, and treats! We really are looking forward to a wide-open show with the baby grand piano, guitar, and some of our new material in different ways. Details:https://farmingtoncommunity.librarycalendar.com/event/music-fcl-carolyn-striho-and-scott-dailey-2406
Then looking at December where we have some more new music coming out and a date with favorites Vinnie Dombroski and The Orbitsuns at the famous Cadieux Café on Friday night Dec. 8th! There are a couple more exciting things coming up in December. And thanks to Depeche Mode for making my birthday an extra treat with tickets to their Detroit show -honored to be on the guest list from the U.K. to Detroit!
Great news! Our new song “The Bridge” is on the first round of voting in The Grammy Awards(R) Ballot for Best American Roots Song and Best American Roots Performance! Released in June 2023, “The Bridge” was written, sang and performed by Erin Zindle and Carolyn Striho.Thank you to Geoff Michaels for engineering at Big Sky Recording in Ann Arbor Michigan, where we recorded the song in spring 2023. Thank you to Jamie Candiloro for mixing and to Greg Calbi/Sterling Sound for the mastering. Artwork and lyric video by Erin Zindle. You can hear it here on Youtube or just click this link or the Hearnow: https://carolynstrihoanderinzindle.hearnow.com
Scott Dailey and I have been wrapped up with mixing the songs and working and teaching and we are getting ready to release the singles soon. Being mastered by Third Man Records Cass Corridor Detroit, they are almost ready!
We also were grateful to travel back to Europe, this time again to Italy, with cousins who live in Trieste and near Slovenia. We have played in Europe on seven tours and am honored to have played Donne in Musica, Rome, Frascati and Fiuggi, and also, in the U.K. several times in London and Isle of Wight and in Japan.
We also had a great summer of shows throughout Detroit, Metro Detroit, Grand Rapids and near Ann Arbor.
I’ve got some new shows to talk about soon, and one is from a reading/music show with my book at The Mount Clemens Public Library, in downtown Mount Clemens, Michigan on Saturday, October 14th, at noon. This is a really cool new Library and the show will feature poetry and also some new music I’m doing. Details here https://events.getlocalhop.com/author-visit-carolyn-striho/event/9hJFmgwAfM/
And thanks for the airplay on WDET-FM NPR Detroit, KLT The Rock Station in Traverse City, Michigan, Ann Arbor’s 107.1 FM’s Tree Town Sound and WHFR-FM Dearborn Michigan as we continue to hear new music on the radio from our previous and new recordings from us, including Detroit Energy Asylum, Carolyn Striho & Scott Dailey, and Erin Zindle and me for our new song.
There’s also a new album out that features the band I was in for many years, Detroit Energy Asylum. Detroit Energy Asylum’s “Landslide of Life” is a heartfelt, spirited album and I hope you might check it. With a stellar production job by Freddie Brooks, it contains ten songs, nine of which I wrote or co-wrote and with a cover of Iggy’s “I Need Somebody.” I’m on lead vocals, piano and rhythm guitar with Dave McMurray on saxophone, Luis Resto on keyboards and our wonderful cast of great musicians, including Jervonny Collier on bass, Vinnie Dombroski on drums, Randy Jacobs and Joey Mazzola on guitar and more. Here is the link to Bandcamp – https://orchide.bandcamp.com/
Thank you for listening, and I’m happy to be releasing the new music soon…it’s really coming, along with several Fall shows, too, that feel different. It’s amost as though a strange, new enlightenment is coming together.
We are back soon with live shows, mainly concentrating on releasing the new music this year. Stay tuned! We’ll have each song on all digital platforms, culminating in an album next year, and new tour. In the meantime, I’m back to teaching and writing, and we’re also working on video. After a big trip to northern Italy, the Adriatic Sea, The Alps and even Austria for a day, we’re busy in a creative streak to get the music out – hurray! It was a great summer of shows, with new ones on their way later this Fall with the new releases.We’ve had some good airplay throughout the State and region, too. Thank you x
Also, there’s a new album coming out that features the band I was in for many years with tremendous musicians – it’s Detroit Energy Asylum! “Landslide of Life” is a thrilling and spirited album. With a nice production job by Freddie Brooks, my ex, it’s got 10 songs you must hear. There is also a great cover of Iggy’s “I Need Somebody” So please check Detroit Energy Asylum on Bandcamp for the new album. Here’s a good link and it’s worth it 🙂 https://orchide.bandcamp.com
It has been a wild August, and we’re returning to the studio for final mixes and the stage later in Fall after visiting northern Italy. (We’ll be back over there to perform again). Very grateful, and see you in September !
This Thursday, July 27, 2023, we are playing one of our favorite places, The Whitney at the Whitney Garden Party mansion in Detroit! We are excited to be back at this gorgeous castle with new music, delicious lobster rolls and so much great dishes, drinks, the garden, and even a ghost bar inside! We’ll be playing on the beautiful patio after many great Spring and Summer shows. https://www.thewhitney.com/the-garden-party. https://visitdetroit.com/inside-the-d/whitney-garden-parties/
July 27th is also my late dad’s birthday and another special day for me on July 26th with a 10 year cancer free journey after having breast cancer in 2013 , too.
There’s a new album coming out that features the band I was in for many years, and my songs and my voice and keyboards, with amazing musicians from my former band Detroit Energy Asylum. Detroit Energy Asylum’s “Landslide of Life” is a heartening, thrilling and spirited album and I hope you might check it out. With a nice production job by Freddie Brooks, my ex, it’s got 10 songs you have to hear. There is also a great cover of Iggy’s “I Need Somebody” and much music with Dave McMurray on saxophone and a slew of great musicians. I was lucky to spend some time at Dave’s great gig at Third Man Records Cass Corridor Detroit for Concert of Colors and Blue Note Records in July with Don Was and crew. What a great night! So please check Detroit Energy Asylum on Bandcamp for the new album. The pre-sale link is coming in early August on Bandcamp, too.
I also am honored about having new songs to share with you soon! We had anticipated summer, but the songs will be released this Fall into the end of the year, both as singles and an album. Stay tuned for my new songs with Scott Dailey, and the band. 🙂 Scott and I are excited to release new music this year. It’s really happening!
