Carolann Solebello with Tom Stahl opening
Carolann Solebello, with Tom Stahl opening, joins us
Saturday, February 1st with the show starting at 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 1st with the show starting at 7:30 pm

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.
Reviews/Accolades"Carolann Solebello may be the best kept secret in the world of singer-songwriters... She possesses one of the best voices in the singer-songwriter world with vocal body and spot-on intonation. She's also matured into a first-rate songwriter. Her topics range from finding her muse to Bastille Day in New York, to the deeply personal question and request Listen. A great deal of credit for the glory of this album [Shiver] must be given to her producer Joe Iadanza... Everything just falls into place on this recording which vaults Solebello into the upper echelon of singer-songwriters."
~ Rich Warren, The Midnight Special, WFMT 98.7FM, Chicago IL
"I think of Carolann Solebello as a painter with words. An illustrator could have a field day with the imaginative storytelling [in this] book of tales... Whether it’s divine aid or some other muse, she shows off some major chops with Shiver."
~ Richard Cuccaro, Acoustic Live in NYC
"Shiver is a strong effort showcasing Carolann Solebello’s smart songwriting chops and bell-clear singing voice... While she may mix in a few other musical styles, it’s clear her bread and butter is traditional folk singing and songwriting... real-deal folk music."
~ Dan MacIntosh, Music Matters Review
"With the first soaring notes of the bittersweet, opening country ballad, "Brooklyn in the Rain," her strong, clear, insistent vocals were a potent reminder why she’d gotten the Red Molly gig to begin with. That, and her purist, similarly eclectic guitar chops. The fluidity of Solebello’s fretwork, whether with her chords or fingerpicking, should be the rule rather than the exception, but in what’s left of the singer-songwriter demimonde, it seldom is."
~ Alan Young, New York Music Daily
"It's refreshing to hear a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn who's actually from Brooklyn… Steel and Salt is nothing if not a love song to New York City... This is an album about home. Whether you're from my home or not. In "Movie Queen," Solebello sings that "We will never be celebrities." While that's probably not a bad thing, it would also be a shame to let this album fade into obscurity."
~ Rachel Choist, Adobe and Teardrops
2019 Most Wanted Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale NY
2018 Finalist CT Folk Fest & Green Expo Songwriting Competition, New Haven CT
2018 Emerging Artist Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale NY
2016 Silver (Folk/Acoustic) & Director's Choice 33rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, Washington DC
2015 Winner Musicians on a Mission Songwriting Contest, Belmar NJ
2014 Third Place SolarFest Songwriter Showcase Competition, Tinmouth VT
2014 Finalist South Florida Folk Festival Songwriting Competition, Ft. Lauderdale FL
2011 Winner Susquehanna Music & Arts Festival Songwriting Competition, Havre de Grace MD
Reviews/Accolades"Carolann Solebello may be the best kept secret in the world of singer-songwriters... She possesses one of the best voices in the singer-songwriter world with vocal body and spot-on intonation. She's also matured into a first-rate songwriter. Her topics range from finding her muse to Bastille Day in New York, to the deeply personal question and request Listen. A great deal of credit for the glory of this album [Shiver] must be given to her producer Joe Iadanza... Everything just falls into place on this recording which vaults Solebello into the upper echelon of singer-songwriters."
~ Rich Warren, The Midnight Special, WFMT 98.7FM, Chicago IL
"I think of Carolann Solebello as a painter with words. An illustrator could have a field day with the imaginative storytelling [in this] book of tales... Whether it’s divine aid or some other muse, she shows off some major chops with Shiver."
~ Richard Cuccaro, Acoustic Live in NYC
"Shiver is a strong effort showcasing Carolann Solebello’s smart songwriting chops and bell-clear singing voice... While she may mix in a few other musical styles, it’s clear her bread and butter is traditional folk singing and songwriting... real-deal folk music."
~ Dan MacIntosh, Music Matters Review
"With the first soaring notes of the bittersweet, opening country ballad, "Brooklyn in the Rain," her strong, clear, insistent vocals were a potent reminder why she’d gotten the Red Molly gig to begin with. That, and her purist, similarly eclectic guitar chops. The fluidity of Solebello’s fretwork, whether with her chords or fingerpicking, should be the rule rather than the exception, but in what’s left of the singer-songwriter demimonde, it seldom is."
~ Alan Young, New York Music Daily
"It's refreshing to hear a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn who's actually from Brooklyn… Steel and Salt is nothing if not a love song to New York City... This is an album about home. Whether you're from my home or not. In "Movie Queen," Solebello sings that "We will never be celebrities." While that's probably not a bad thing, it would also be a shame to let this album fade into obscurity."
~ Rachel Choist, Adobe and Teardrops
2019 Most Wanted Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale NY
2018 Finalist CT Folk Fest & Green Expo Songwriting Competition, New Haven CT
2018 Emerging Artist Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale NY
2016 Silver (Folk/Acoustic) & Director's Choice 33rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, Washington DC
2015 Winner Musicians on a Mission Songwriting Contest, Belmar NJ
2014 Third Place SolarFest Songwriter Showcase Competition, Tinmouth VT
2014 Finalist South Florida Folk Festival Songwriting Competition, Ft. Lauderdale FL
2011 Winner Susquehanna Music & Arts Festival Songwriting Competition, Havre de Grace MD

Tom Stahl It took Tom Stahl awhile to start his music career.
Decades, in fact. He didn’t start playing for an audience until he was in his 30s. Even then, he almost didn’t start. Tom was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in 2017.
Stahl – who has gone on to release 11 albums under his own name and with his band, the Dangerfields – said he had had a guitar for a long time. But then he found himself telling his then-young son that you can do anything you want if you work at it. Encouraged by his wife, Lou, he said he “decided to put my money where my mouth was.”
At the time, he was recovering from a work-related injury, and he decided to start writing down the songs he had always had in his head. Then he decided to take them down to Nietzsche’s in Allentown to play at Michael Meldrum’s legendary Monday open mic. “I went there probably about five or six weeks in a row, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s in 1994,” he said. But he never played. “Every week I went with my guitar, and when everybody was done, I walked out,” Stahl said.
“So it was Jan. 2, probably going into Jan. 3, and my resolution was ‘I’m going to do this.’ So I went in with my guitar, and at the end of the night, it’s me and Mike Meldrum, and I was walking out again. “Mike said, ‘you know, nobody’s going to hurt you,’ and I sang three songs for him. I remember after a couple of songs, he put down his wine glass and started really watching, and he said, ‘you’re a songwriter … you want to do a show?’ … So no Mike Meldrum, no me.” In relatively short order Stahl had his first tape out and a music career was started – with a big boost from his wife.
“My wife, Lou, is the only reason I ever did anything,” he said. “She thought I had a gift and it would be wrong not to share it,” he said. “We had some pretty serious ‘discussions’ prior to me getting the nerve ... and then after that she booked every gig and sent out every mailing the first 10 years. For every excuse I came up with, she had an answer.”
Once he got rolling, Stahl’s “I Wanna Be Ignorant,” the title song of his first release in 1995, set the standard high. A look back in yearning at the innocence of youth, it’s become one of his standards and a favorite for several other area performers to cover.
In 1997, the Dangerfields came into existence (although they wouldn’t take that name for a few more years).
For more information on Tom Stahl and the Dangerfields, visit their website at: www.tomstahlandthedangerfields.com
Decades, in fact. He didn’t start playing for an audience until he was in his 30s. Even then, he almost didn’t start. Tom was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in 2017.
Stahl – who has gone on to release 11 albums under his own name and with his band, the Dangerfields – said he had had a guitar for a long time. But then he found himself telling his then-young son that you can do anything you want if you work at it. Encouraged by his wife, Lou, he said he “decided to put my money where my mouth was.”
At the time, he was recovering from a work-related injury, and he decided to start writing down the songs he had always had in his head. Then he decided to take them down to Nietzsche’s in Allentown to play at Michael Meldrum’s legendary Monday open mic. “I went there probably about five or six weeks in a row, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s in 1994,” he said. But he never played. “Every week I went with my guitar, and when everybody was done, I walked out,” Stahl said.
“So it was Jan. 2, probably going into Jan. 3, and my resolution was ‘I’m going to do this.’ So I went in with my guitar, and at the end of the night, it’s me and Mike Meldrum, and I was walking out again. “Mike said, ‘you know, nobody’s going to hurt you,’ and I sang three songs for him. I remember after a couple of songs, he put down his wine glass and started really watching, and he said, ‘you’re a songwriter … you want to do a show?’ … So no Mike Meldrum, no me.” In relatively short order Stahl had his first tape out and a music career was started – with a big boost from his wife.
“My wife, Lou, is the only reason I ever did anything,” he said. “She thought I had a gift and it would be wrong not to share it,” he said. “We had some pretty serious ‘discussions’ prior to me getting the nerve ... and then after that she booked every gig and sent out every mailing the first 10 years. For every excuse I came up with, she had an answer.”
Once he got rolling, Stahl’s “I Wanna Be Ignorant,” the title song of his first release in 1995, set the standard high. A look back in yearning at the innocence of youth, it’s become one of his standards and a favorite for several other area performers to cover.
In 1997, the Dangerfields came into existence (although they wouldn’t take that name for a few more years).
For more information on Tom Stahl and the Dangerfields, visit their website at: www.tomstahlandthedangerfields.com