Carolyn Wonderland

Carolyn Wonderland http://do512.com/band/carolyn-wonerland http://do512.com/band/carolyn-wonerland.xml Carolyn Wonderland has the goods. A triple threat with her diverse songwriting, soulful vocals, and guitar goddess status - all featured on over twenty CDs, six of which are her releases - she has a pedigree in this business that's hard to match. A bit of a renegade, she likes to incorporate elements of Blues, Country, Swing, Zydeco, Surf, Gospel, Soul, and some nights, maybe even a Cumbia into the musical mix. Recent years have seen her stretching out musically working some expert whistling and scat singing into her shows. In addition to her trusty guitar, "Patty," Carolyn has been regularly playing her trumpet, and even occasionally the accordion, mandolin, or keys...she is threatening to take up nose flute if someone doesn’t stop her... Wonderland's songs have been featured on NBC's "Homicide," Fox's "Time of Your Life," & Houston NORML even made a video PSA set to Carolyn's "Annie's Scarlet Letter." She has toured with acts like Buddy Guy and Johnny Winter, sat-in with String Cheese Incident, Robert Earl Keen, and Los Lobos, and even sang the "National Anthem" at Sturgis Bike Week 2003 -- her 10th anniversary playing Sturgis -- before Robbie Kneivel's record-breaking jump over one hundred Harleys. Recently, she was a panelist at the University of Texas LBJ Library's "Instruments of Freedom" Forum with Kinky Friedman, Marcia Ball, Jerry Jeff Walker and others. She's been lucky enough to jam with mentors and friends like Bob Dylan, Eddy Shaver and Ray Benson. She's co-written songs with Cindy Cashdollar, Candye Kane, Sarah Brown and Guy Forsyth. How lucky can one girl get? Well, with a lot of hard work, just this lucky. In her words, "I still get to play most every night, so the adventure continues. Every musical interlude is a new page, another chance to jump into the Ether." Originally from Houston, a city where she has won awards in The Houston Press for everything from Best Guitarist, Vocalist, Songwriter, Blues, to Release of the Year and Musician of the Year -- virtually sweeping the awards for 5 years from the time she was a teenager. Now residing in Austin, Ms. Wonderland says, "I moved to the land of free guitar lessons!" In addition to leading her band, Carolyn is also in a few other notable groups. She's the primary singer on the Jerry Lightfoot's Band of Wonder "Texistentialism" CD with Jerry and Vince Welnick (Grateful Dead, Tubes.) She's a founding member of the Loose Affiliation of Saints and Sinners (with Papa Mali, Eldridge Goins, Guy Forsyth, and others), with several of her songs being featured on their "Sessions from the Hotel San Jose Rm. 50" CD. Carolyn is also the guitarist in the all-girl, southern rock band Sis DeVille, and a founding member of the Austin Volunteer Orchestra. When she's not playing music or driving around the country, she volunteers for the non-profit charity, Instruments for Orphans, serving on the board of directors. Frequently, you can also catch her doing Gospel Brunch at Maria's Taco X-Press with the Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers on Sundays, raising money for local charities. Her first love is her band, and with good reason. Years of touring are evident in both the maturity of the songs and the tightness of the grooves on 2003's "Bloodless Revolution." Not one to rest on her laurels, Carolyn is back in the studio working with Ray Benson on lucky CD number 7. You can preview some of the new songs at one of the many live shows on her perpetual tour. <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Carolyn+Wonderland" target="_blank">Listen at Last.fm</a> Rock / Blues / Jam BandA musical force equipped with the soulful vocals of Janis and the guitar slinging skills of Stevie Ray, Carolyn Wonderland reaches into the depths of the Texas blues tradition with the wit of a poet.  She hits the stage with unmatched presence, a true legend in her time.  <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A618724" target="_blank" title="Austin Chronicle Interview"></a> “She'd grown up the child of a singer in a band and began playing her mother's vintage Martin guitar when other girls were dressing dolls. She'd gone from being the teenage toast of her hometown Houston to sleeping in her van in Austin amid heaps of critical acclaim for fine recordings Alcohol & Salvation, Bloodless Revolution, and most recently, Miss Understood. Along with the guitar and the multitude of other instruments she learned to play – trumpet, accordion, piano, mandolin, lap steel – Wonderland's ability to whistle remains most unusual. Whistling is a uniquely vocal art seldom invoked in modern music, yet it's among the most spectacular talents the human voice possesses. That vocal proficiency was well-established in the singer's midteens, landing her gigs at Fitzgerald's by age 15. She absorbed Houston influences like Little Screamin' Kenny and soaked up the Mad Hatter of Texas music, Doug Sahm. The Lone Star State was as credible and fertile a proving ground for blues in the 1980s as existed, especially in Austin with Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Angela Strehli, Omar & the Howlers, and Lou Ann Barton all in their prime. By the following decade, Austin's blues luster thinned, but Houston, always a bastion of soul and R&B, boasted the Imperial Monkeys with the effervescent Carolyn Wonderland as ruler of the jungle. In the early 1990s Wonderland & the Imperial Monkeys were invited to the Guadalupe Street Antone's in Austin. There, they were treated like royalty with the singer as the queen of hearts in the club's post-Stevie Ray Vaughan stable, which included Toni Price, Johnny and Jay Moeller, Sue Foley, Mike and Corey Keller, and the Ugly Americans. It was a good bar for the Monkeys to hang, and Austin felt so comfortable that when the band called it quits a few years later, she set her sights on Austin at the start of the millennium. Living in Austin renewed Carolyn Wonderland's focus on her multiple talents, underlining luxurious vocals with fine guitar work, trumpet, and piano, as well as that remarkable ability to whistle on key. A series of each-better-than-the-next discs began with Alcohol & Salvation in 2003 ("songs about booze and God; records are a time capsule of what happened that year"). Her music played in television series such as Time of Your Life and Homicide. Her circle of musician friends and admirers broadened to include not only Ray [Benson, who produced Miss Understood] but also the late Eddy Shaver, Shelley King, and yes, Bob Dylan, who likened her composition "Bloodless Revolution" to "a mystery movie theme." She began co-writing with locals Sarah Brown, Ruthie Foster, Cindy Cashdollar, and Guy Forsyth; sat in with Los Lobos, Robert Earl Keen, and Ray Wylie Hubbard; recorded with Jerry Lightfoot; and toured with Buddy Guy and Johnny Winter. She also claims membership in the all-girl Sis Deville, the gospel-infused Imperial Crown Golden Harmonizers, and takes aw-shucks credit for inspiring Amsterdam's annual WonderJam. It was magic in the studio, too, as Miss Understood came to life, a canny mix of Benson's production, Wonderland's compositions, and select covers of Terri Hendrix, J.J. Cale, and Rick Derringer that punched her sound up a notch. As soon as the album roared to life, it was clear the singer-songwriter-guitarist-whistler had delivered on her long-awaited promise.”   carolynwonerland http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/112503/m_c579281a3f87ac4505f7533f27bb7b92_poster.jpg 48796328 http://www.myspace.com/carolynwonderland AUSTIN, Texas http://www.carolynwonderland.com zm1WGJvhkdo

106375 Guy Forsyth & Carolyn Wonderland: Holidays by Candlelight     Guy Forsyth & Carolyn Wonderland Holidays by Candlelight Fireside Songs for the Soul Wed, Dec 9 @ 7 & 9:30 pm <a href="http://www.guyforsyth.com/">www.guyforsyth.com</a> <a href="http://www.carolynwonderland.com/">www.carolynwonderland.com</a> <a href="http://www.oneworldtheatre.org/">www.oneworldtheatre.org</a>   Join two legendary Austin icons as they take a brief respite from their normal headlining shows to join their bands together, creating a supergroup for one magical night at One World Theatre. This hipster holiday show will feature a stocking full of seasonal songs in the stylings of blues, folk, rock, country, and Big Band sounds. Come enjoy this very special evening filled with Guy and Carolyn’s interpretations of holiday classics such as “Baby It’s Cold Outside”, “Silent Night”, “Merry Christmas Baby”, “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy” and many more. Fans of Guy and Carolyn also know to expect the unexpected: Gospel tunes, African spirituals – nothing is off-limits for the first ever Guy Forsyth & Carolyn Wonderland Holidays by Candlelight!   This event takes place one night only on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009. Two show seatings – 7:00pm and 9:30pm To purchase tickets and/or dinner reservations, call 512.329.6753 or visit <a href="http://www.oneworldtheatre.org/">www.oneworldtheatre.org</a>                                                                                                                                     Guy Forsyth is a musician with gripping, powerful vocals that deliver energetic yarns about love, the government and the apocalypse, to name a few. A true Renaissance man, he has mastered numerous instruments including acoustic, electric and slide guitar, harmonica, ukulele and singing saw. From his start as founder and stellar live performer with The Asylum Street Spankers to being awarded numerous Austin Music Awards, Forsyth has earned a veritable army of fans in Texas and beyond. A musical force equipped with the soulful vocals of Janis and the guitar slinging skills of Stevie Ray, Carolyn Wonderland reaches into the depths of the Texas blues tradition with the wit of a poet. She hits the stage with unmatched presence, a true legend in her time. Along with the guitar, she has learned to play a multitude of instruments, including trumpet, accordion, piano, mandolin and lap steel.   http://do512.com/event/2009/12/09/guy-forsyth-carolyn-wonderland-holidays-by-candlelight http://do512.com/event/2009/12/09/guy-forsyth-carolyn-wonderland-holidays-by-candlelight.xml Wednesday 12/09/09 20091210T010000Z/20091210T010000Z false 0 1.0 07:00 PM Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:00:00 -0600 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:00:00 -0600 1 WED http://www.oneworldtheatre.org http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/304047/guy-carolyn-postcard_sq_90.jpg One World Theater 8252 One World Theater http://do512.com/venue/one-world-theater http://do512.com/venue/one-world-theater.xml

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