What a great night at Eastern Market After Dark in September! Our merch table was busy with so many guests/attendees coming over! Thanks for the purchases of our books and music in Eastern Market! We were at the Aquarius Press table, and it was packed throughout the sheds, but also outside. Loved it, thank you!
There’s some new shows coming up, and they are really special/eclectic and new. But first, a note I’m working on another book and it’s finally taking shape. It is like a Volume II, leading from Detroit (Maiden Energy) and will feature some poems, lyrics and writings from growing up in Detroit but also brand new poems. But it also includes some short passages about live shows and more, with people you may have seen onstage. While not a full on memoir, it gives hints at some of the wild stage nights and days as a Detroit (female) musician. It may also include several photos.
My guitarist/husband Scott Dailey may be back joining me at a later show this year, but he is in a new cancer treatment again. It takes a lot or energy for him. He is a trooper. I remember my breast cancer, and it’s been 13 years, and I’m hopeful.
I’ll be appearing on NPR WDET-FM 101.9 on Ann Delisi’s Essential Music on Saturday October 3rd at 1:30 pm EST, with Heather Buchanan of Aquarius Press. Listen in if you’re able to stream the show or in Detroit/Metro Detroit. Ann is fabulous and so is her show!
And check out Thursday October 8th, an all-star lineup of award-winning Detroit poets and musicians with special guests performing October 8th at Aretha’s Jazz Café from 8-10pm. Join Mary McGuire, Tracy Kash, Khan Santori Davison, Heather Buchanan and me performing poetry, rock, jazz, soulful folk, bewitching baroque music and more.
And on October 13, join us for an enjoyable evening of music and history at one of Detroit’s gorgeous, iconic landmarks, The Frederick Stearns House!
INFO is here — CASA Oktoberfest at the Stearns House ADDRESS: 8109 E. Jefferson Ave. Detroit MI 48214 DATE: October 13, 2026 TIME: 5:00 – 7:30 pm Experience live performances featuring Third Circuit Court Visiting Judge, The Honorable Frank Szymanski (also known as Franklin Sane), along with artists Butch Hollowell and Carolyn Striho.This exciting event directly benefits the Wayne County CASA advocacy program, ensuring children in foster care find safe, permanent homes. https://waynecountycasa.org/events
What a summer with new poetry and stories for the new book, and some brilliant live shows here in Detroit and Michigan
We were at Cadieux Café in Detroit with the full band, then I was asked to perform at 20 Front Street in Lake Orion for Steve Taylor’s Songwriter’s Night, and also at the Aquarius Press Table at The Detroit Book Fest in Eastern Market- thank you for buying my book and vinyl there, too. Then the full band performed at a sold out Whitney Mansion Garden Party in Detroit. It was a good summer for live music!
Scott and I were up in Traverse City, Michigan for northern Michigan’s KLT The Rock Station and KLT’s The Garage with DJ Terry Ray – a wonderful interview and music! Thank you Terri! Also, we have had some outdoors on the Muskegon River, down at Detroit parks and up near Torch Lake.
Onto Autumn, there’s a private very cool event in September downtown Detroit but private. Then there’s two exciting shows in Detroit in October – first, we’ll be hosting a Detroit Music Poetry Music night at Aretha’s Jazz Café at Music Hall Detroit, Thursday October 8th at 8 pm, with an awesome lineup that includes myself with Heather Buchanan, Tracy Kash, Mary McGuire and Khan Santori Davison with special guests !
Then I’ll be performing at the Frederick Stearns House, which is a beautiful historical building on E. Jefferson in Detroit, for the Wayne County, Detroit CASA benefit on October 13th. Details coming soon!
Scott is in a new round of treatment, and we had to bow out of several shows. Please pray for him, and hopefully he can join me on this Fall’s shows.
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!
Thanks for the airplay at WDET-FM/NPR Detroit and in the U.K. on Rock Radio U.K. and Blues Corner U.K.! We had a great show in January being the featured songwriters for Copper Hop Brewing’ Songwriter’s Night in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. We just got back from Traverse City, Michigan for some book/music work. We hope to be in St. Petersburg Florida for a writer’s retreat near the Gulf of Mexico in Spring.
I’m excited to be a part of the Third Coast Author and Book Festival Saturday March 21st in Grand Haven, Michigan, selling and signing my book “Detroit “Maiden Energy.” There are many amazing authors at this one, and it’s free to attend (and near Lake Michigan!) More info here at: https://thirdcoastfest.org/
In April, we may be at Bowlero in Royal Oak and a tentative Eastern Market book event in May. We have a full band/music show Saturday night, June 6th, 2026, at O’Malley’s in Livonia, Michigan. Join the Carolyn Striho Group and Mario Resto and World Chaotic for a big blast of new music and more on Saturday 6/6/26 at 7:30 pm – details coming soon.
Also in June, I’ll be at 20 Front Street in Lake Orion for the Songwriter’s Night with Steve Taylor, the St Clair Shores LIT Fest on Lake St. Clair with ML Liebler, and back at Cadieux Café with our full band and The Orbitsuns.
It’s February fog and hail, rain and snow – stay warm! Love
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
Saturday November 15th at 8 pm, Scott Dailey and I perform at The Berman Center in West Bloomfield Michigan for an 80’s show with author Gary Graff, an musicians Steve Taylor Three and more. Details here with showtime at 8 pm – a great big event of November fun. https://jlive.app/events/12818
Saturday November 22nd 8 pm join Mary McGuire, Scott Dailey, Mario Resto and myself for a rock and roll, jazz and baroque show together at Trinity House Theatre in Livonia, Michigan. More at: https://www.trinityhousetheatre.org/
We have been working hard down in Metro Detroit, teaching and writing, and back in northern Michigan for writing and health! And Scott just had another treatment, thank you for the prayers. Looking forward to seeing you out there, and also with shows and book events coming next month in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Detroit Michigan.
