CAROLANN SOLEBELLO is a performing songwriter born and bred in New York City. Best known to folk audiences as a founding member of Americana trio Red Molly, she now tours as a solo troubadour and with modern folk foursome No Fuss and Feathers. Carolann’s smooth, compelling voice and warm acoustic guitar style nod to rural folk traditions while her decidedly urban sense of rhythm and sophisticated vocal phrasing plant her firmly in the present. An award-winning songwriter and proud member of AFM Local 1000, Carolann has five solo albums to her credit and is working on a sixth.

Hailing from Utica, Nebraska now, Hope Dunbar is a pioneer of the New American Prairie style, which she defines as a sound unique to the region in which she lives. It describes a sparseness or emptiness in the composition. It describes a folk/Americana sound, but not of the south. More of the plains with a resilient spirit, a quiet toughness, perhaps gentle resignation but still fighting for it. Maybe not as fiery or as showy as other places, but still fighting.