Women's Voices

250 Bryant Avenue,,White Plains NY 10605

09 April, 2022

Description

Our featured performers will raise awareness of women's voices as they pertain to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Performing this evening will be: Bev Grant, Carolann Solebello, The Trouble Sisters, and Lindsey Wilson. BEV GRANT (songwriter, activist, author, photographer) is a brilliant feminist pioneer with a true rock and roll heart! Bev grew up singing and playing in Portland, Oregon, where she began her performing career as a child in a band with her two sisters. After moving to New York City, she devoted herself to topical songwriting and social activism, notably in her band The Human Condition. Bev is featured on the Grammy-nominated Best of Broadside album and is the founder and director of the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus. Her song “We Were There” has become an anthem of women in the labor movement, and many other of her award-winning songs can be found on her numerous recordings. 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 both solo and with modern folk quartet No Fuss and Feathers. Carolann’s smooth, compelling voice and warm acoustic guitar style surely nod to rural folk traditions, yet her decidedly urban sense of rhythm and sophisticated vocal phrasing bend those traditional forms into more contemporary shapes. She is a proud member of the Jack Hardy Songwriters’ Exchange and has won numerous songwriting awards. Carolann released her fifth solo album, Shiver, in February 2018. THE TROUBLE SISTERS, the Beacon, NY –centered trio of Karen Brooks, Laurie Siegel and Melissa Ortquist, met through the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and singing with Pete Seeger. They are known for their spellbinding harmonies. They have performed at numerous festivals including the Hudson River Clearwater Festival, the Beacon Strawberry Festival, Beacon Corn Festival, The Heath Fair and venues such as The Town Crier, where they performed with the Breakneck Ridge Review. LINDSEY WILSON -- Throughout her career, Lindsey Wilson has embraced issues of the heart and mind within her original music. Love songs, protest tunes and lyrics of empowerment have all been a true representation of her style and sensibilities. Lindsey has performed at some of New York’s most popular venues, such as Joe’s Pub, The Knitting Factory, Sidewalk Cafe, Fez, ShapeShifter Lab, Shrine World Music Venue, The Living Room, BBKings, and CBGBs. Lindsey is also co-creator and star of the hit new web series MEG RAMSEY directed by filmmaker Theresa Brown. which is now in its second season.