It’s almost June! We were in hibernation mode, writing, teaching and a few short trips to bring it all back around. Thanks to Copper Hop Brewery cool gig in St. Clair Shores and also, the Grand Haven Lake Michigan Book Festival, Horizon Books Traverse City Michigan, a songwriter retreat up near Big Rapids Michigan, and Barnes & Noble in St. Petersburg Florida.
So we’re back! Saturday June 6th at 8 pm at O’Malleys in Livonia, Michigan, it’s going to be a super night with our full band, and also, Mario Resto’s Band, World Chaotic. Join the Carolyn Striho Group and World Chaotic for a summer night of rock and roll, psychedelic gypsy new music, buzzing new songs and poems! O’Malleys is at 5 Mile and Farmington Road in Livonia, Michigan – ticket details https://omalleyslivonia.com
July has a promising light of amazing shows coming up, it’s a super return to The Whitney Mansion, July 23rd , where have a full band night together the Whitney Garden Party, presented by Metro Times Detroit Details at .https://www.thewhitney.com/events-experiences
And I’m at the Detroit Festival of Books with Heather Buchanan and the Aquarius Press table. Join us Sunday July 19th at 1030 am to 4 pm!
This Friday night, December 5th at 8 pm, we’re performing on a thrilling show with Chicago’s Claudettes at The Tip Top Deluxe Bar & Grill in downtown Grand Rapids, MI, 760 Butterworth St SW, Grand Rapids, MI (616) 272-3910 Tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/1944704336317631/?ref=110
Friday night December 19th at 8:30 pm, we’re at Detroit’s Cadieux Cafe with our full band and The Orbitsuns for our annual holiday rock and roll outlaw show ! Join us at 4300 Cadieux Rd, Detroit, MI 48224 (313) 882-8560!Tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/24671886945814229
Sunday Dec. 21st, 8 pm we’re featured on Terri Ray’s excellent Holiday Garage show on WKLT-FM, northern Michigan’s Traverse City’s best radio with our “Silent Night” https://www.wklt.com/onair
And I have to mention that we had beautiful shows in November! Thank to everyone who came out to see us in Southeast Michigan – Dexter at Rancho Tranquilico, with Scott Dailey and me, and Jason Charboneau joining us on cello, West Bloomfield at Berman Center for Gary Graff’s 501 Essential Albums of the 80’s, and in Livonia at Trinity House Theatre with Mary McGuire and Mario Resto. Packed houses, too, sweet!
Also, sincere thanks for buying our music, my book, our vinyl at our shows, it’s really appreciated! We had to re-order again and again, and that’s always such good news. @Grateful
Happy Holidays! xx
Love, Carolyn Striho & Scott Dailey and Striho Group xx
We’ve been all over this year from Detroit down to St. Petersburg and Treasure Island in Florida, and back in Michigan from Traverse City to Grand Rapids to Ann Arbor and back up near Big Rapids and Cadillac, Michigan. I’ve been teaching down here every day and working on new poetry and compiling some really cool stories of my music life. It’s a lot to work on a new book, but I found even more poetry from many years. This could be an adventure and I hope I get there with the new book. Scott has been undergoing treatments but his health is stabilized even with these strong treatments. We are grateful and hope things continue to improve. He will also join me on the new shows this month. He is hoping to finish some new songs as well.
So here we are with new June shows with the full band too!
Friday to Sunday, June 13 to June 15 is the marvelous Nor’Easter Festival up in northern Michigan- we’re back again this year performing on Saturday June 14th at 5:30 pm on the Main Stage. It’s a really cool festival and it’s tucked into the northeast side of Michigan (if you keep driving you go straight to Lake Huron!) There’s a super lineup of excellent artists and vendors!! Join us and check it out for tickets and camping at https://www.noreastrfest.org/
Wednesday, June 18th, we’re with the full band at the beautiful Ferndale Summer Concert Series located at The Ferndale Library courtyard at 6:30! NPR Detroit’s Jeff Milo and the Ferndale Library have teamed up for a great series this summer! It’s free and I hope you can come out to it at 9 Mile and Woodward – not too far from Detroit in a special place – Ferndale, Michigan. Details at https://www.fadl.org/scs
Thanks also for the recent airplay on several stations. Internationally, we’re over on Blues Radio/Corner U.K. in London England, and on Noel Casey’s After Midnight in Dublin Ireland. Here in the U.S. thanks for the airplay at WYCE Grand Rapids, WAKT-FM Toledo Ohio, WXTF-LP 97.9, Harrisville Michigan, WDET-FM NPR Detroit 101.9 FM and Radio Cobra Detroit !
Happy June ! And a 3rd New release this year! Our new song “Piano Moon” is out now! The new song is available on all streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube and more. Check it here at https://carolynstriho.hearnow.com
With Jason Charboneau on beautiful cello, Scott Dailey on fiery haunting guitar and Ron Wolf on shimmery percussion. I’m on a symphonic piano and hope you enjoy it! I wrote the song both in Detroit and Italy and am happy to finally have it recorded and out in the world. Another version with vocals will be released at a later date, too.Recording and Production – Inner Door Music, Michigan; Mastered at Third Man Cass Corridor Records, Detroit, Michigan Warren Defever. Cover Photo in Frascati Italy at Scuderie Aldobrandini
Here’s a direct link to the Youtube video, which just came out today! )
This month on Friday June 7th, Scott Dailey and I are bringing our wildly electric duo to the Nor-Easter’r Festival in northern Michigan, and it’s going to be a brilliant time on a great festival! Join us on our Saturday show in the afternoon at 2 pm EST – there’s some super bands on this Festival, join us! ! Details :https://www.noreastrfest.org
Then we team up with our musician friends cellist Jason Charboneau, bassist John Barron and drummer Todd Glass to play a big set of music with our pals Vinnie Dombroski and the Orbitsuns at Detroit’s Cadieux Café summer party tradition – June 23rd at 3 pm EST – details: https://cadieuxcafe.com/
July brings us a return to Detroit’s fabulous Concert of Colors with Don Was and the All-Star Revue at the best art museum in the USA – Detroit Institute of Arts! We’re back for a 5th time and it’s always a great night. Details coming soon.
With many music releases, teaching and traveling, I’m honored and happy to be here on the planet still as a 11 year survivor of breast cancer. And thanks to all the radio stations playing our music, including NPR in Detroit at WDET-FM, WHFR-FM, WKLT The Rock Station in Traverse City and more. We will have a new EP this year, too! And another new song is coming…”I Will Rise” – stay tuned.
What a month April turned out to be – so wonderful! Scott Dailey and I had a sold out show at Trinity House Theatre with Mary McGuire, Laura Rain and George Friend on April 19th in Livonia, Michigan. Then Scott Dailey, Ron Wolf and I performed at the NFL Draft day in the D – Detroit downtown at Capitol Park on April 25th.. These shows were some of our best and we’re grateful! And our 2nd release of 2024 is out now! Here is “Blue Ridiculous Love” released on April 26th. It will be on all digital sites – Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora et al, and the YouTube lyric/imagery video is here, too.
“Blue Ridiculous Love” has a hypnotic energy, soaring voice of poetry melody and a singing guitar hook. driving drums propelling energy of the song of wistful love and hope, “Blue Ridiculous Love” has truths and questions, both. (Inner Door Music, 2024).”
From multi-award winning singer/songwriters Carolyn Striho and Scott Dailey. Vocals – Carolyn Striho; Guitar and background vocals – Scott Dailey; Bass – Scott Dailey; Drums – Lauren Johnson. Song Production Inner Door Music and Pearl Sound Studios. Mastered by Third Man Detroit Cass Corridor, Warren Defever. Release Date: April 26, 2024 Detroit Michigan USA
May is also bringing our upcoming 3rd Release, “Piano Moon,” a flourish of an instrumental song with a nod to gypsy classical and Trans-Siberian Express that’s a pleaser! Excited to bring that song out soon/
Andthere are some new shows to talk about for June in the next blog, both in northern Michigan and down here in Detroit. Stay tuned – these are some nice ones coming up in June at the Nor-East’r Music Festival and in Detroit at the Cadieux Cafe We’ve had good airplay in Detroit and through Michigan with “14 Miles of Bad Road” and hoping to continue it with the new “Blue Ridiculous Love.” Thank you.
And a new Detroit Energy Asylum CD is on its way. Detroit Energy Asylum was a collective of marvelous Detroit musicians. While I fronted the band, wrote most of the songs, and sang and played keyboards and guitar, we were a true force of nature onstage together as a unit and in the studio, if I can say so myself (thank you!) DEA was something to see and hear. So stay tuned for an update on this album from Orchide Records Detroit and Freddie Brooks. It sounds great and features David McMurray, Luis Resto and much more.
There is more to say, but alas, time is flying, I’m teaching and singing, and Scott and I are so honored to have so many special new songs and opportunities. Saluting the Universe and praying for peace xo
