CAROLANN SOLEBELLO
on the same program with
BOB WESTCOTT
Singer-songwriter/Charmer
PHOTO BY JAKE JACOBSON
Most familiar to folk audiences as a founding member of the female trio RED MOLLY, Carolann Solebello returned to solo performance in August 2010 after six years with the band. She has three full-length Red Molly CDs to her credit, including James (2010), which peaked at #4 on the Americana chart, and Love and Other Tragedies (2008), which spent ten weeks in the Americana Top 15. Carolann’s song “Summertime” was #1 on the Folk DJ chart in July 2008. Carolann has three solo CDs to her credit, and is currently touring in support of her 2011 release, Threshold.
A New York City native, Carolann first fell in love with mountain music – and the bluegrass and country that grew out of that tradition – while working as an actor in East Tennessee and Kansas. Tunes and techniques she learned from musicians in both places fundamentally changed her approach to songwriting and guitar playing, and subsequently colored her work with Red Molly.
Carolann continues to earn accolades performing her New York-inflected brand of original and traditional Americana as a solo artist. She makes her home in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and young son.
Visit her website: CarolannSolebello.comon the same program with
Our favorite legendary guitarist and singer-songwriter
PHOTO BY AMY DONAGHY
Guitarist Bob Westcott is no stranger to Long Island audiences, where his songwriting and guitar playing skills have made him a perennial favorite. His career began as a teenager playing guitar in the streets and basket houses of Greenwich Village, and, more auspiciously, as one of the very first members of the Wes Houston Band. Robbie Woliver, a former owner of Folk City and Greenwich Village scene author, has called Westcott "the real deal.” Bob has been perfecting his elegant finger-style guitar work for more than 40 years. From his Greenwich Village beginnings in the 60s, he moved to Manchester, England to explore the British folk scene, and then traveled throughout Canada and the US in the 70s, living in the Midwest, California and upstate New York before settling on eastern Long Island.
Westcott's performances are peppered with stories about his personal experiences, his travels and travails. For many years, he hosted FMSH's Annual Holiday Revue. He has performed with the topical group Blacklisted and Banned on bass, delved into the music of Memphis with The Daydreamers, a 'folkabilly' outfit of bass, snare and Bob's red Gretsch, – and morphed into 'Pops', the arthritic and acerbic guitar god of The Defibrillators, those good-time blue-haired bluesrockers.
But tonight he plays solo, showcasing his breathtaking skill as a fingerpicker and multi-instrumentalist.
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