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.
The gigs in June (to nearly July) were so good! Even with the hot weather and storms, shows at Nor’East-r Festival in northern Michigan, in Ferndale at the Summer Concert Series, at the Ferndale Library and in Detroit at The Cadieux Cafe were splendid.. Scott Dailey was back on guitar and vocals, with Jason Charboneau on cello and guitar, Mario Resto on drums, Ron Wolf on percussion and John Barron and Christopher Spooner on bass.I was back on my Yahama keyboard and was happy to be singing, and playing my Guild guitar, too. Nice interviews with Local Spins Grand Rapids’ John Sinkevics and WDET/NPR’s Jeff Milo in Ferndale also in June- see below – thanks!
I was also over at the Don Was All Star Revue at Concert of Colors. Having played on five of the shows in the past several years, it’s always special and was grateful to be invited to the opening reception as well at The Detroit Institute of Arts’ courtyard.
The Detroit Festival of Books was really good in July.. I sold many books and had a fun time in Detroit’s Eastern Market! I’m back own with my book in September in Detroit again at Eastern Market, at the Aquarius Press table Shed 2 http://easternmarket.org/markets/taste-of-our-markets/#sunday-market
Thanks for the continued prayers for Scott’s health as he goes back into treatment soon again. We were able to move some shows around, and I have many poems and lyrics for a new book, with stories, Stay tuned to Facebook at www.facebook.com/carolynstriho and to https://www.reverbnation.com/carolynstriho and here on the site for Shows to check out show dates and announcements. We have new gigs in November and likely December, too!
We got to Ludington on Lake Michigan, to the River House on the Muskegon River this summer, and are planning a return to Italy next year for shows. Detroit Energy Asylum has released new material on Orchide Records Detroit – and I’m happy to say I’m quite busy working on new songs myself and with Scott. The new articles on DEA are coming soon.
And here’s some wonderful press received lately, too:
“Award-winning singer/songwriter, musician & poet Carolyn Striho brings rock energy with a passion for poetry and literature, with new songs and poetry, writing her entire life. She melds genres and combines a little bit of ferocity with tenderness, and a wide vocal range and heartfelt lyrics. She distills her music and resilience to communicate to the next generation. Jeff Milo, June 12, 2025, Ferndale, Michigan”
“The ‘fierce stage persona’ and poetic magic of Detroit’s award-winning Carolyn Striho…as a veteran artist with an expansive catalog of eclectic rock ’n’ roll songs, an armload of Detroit Music Awards, a new book of poetry and lyrics, and an engaged fan base, Striho embraces the variety and spontaneity of every show. her songs and her live shows steeped in diversity, from rock to Americana to classical music to pop to blues to jazz. John Sinkevics for Local Spins in Grand Rapids, Michigan June 13, 2025”
