McFerrin Ready To Release First Solo CD
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By David [email protected]
She’s now preparing for her first CD release party in Kalamazoo, Mich.
McFerrin was born at Kosciusko Community Hospital to John and Kathy Sullivan. She was raised on the border of Pierceton and Warsaw, and graduated Whitko High School in 2001. In 2005, she graduated from Grace College.
Music has always been a part of her life. Her mom played the piano and her father played the guitar. She picked the guitar because it was cooler.
Besides her parents, her musical influences included The Cranberries, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones and Tom Petty, among others.
“I feel like I kind of do my own thing,” she said.
She ended up in Kalamazoo in a “roundabout way,” she said.
After graduating Grace, she married a high school baseball coach. They moved down to Atlanta, Ga., for four years.
“Georgia got me more into playing music from there being more professional musicians down there,” she said.
In Atlanta, she found a home as a rhythm guitarist and backing singer for country-blues band The Lindsay Rakers Band. The band opened for more well-known bands like Blues Traveler.
“It gave me quite a bit of confidence. I got an independent streak and a confidence streak,” she said.
After four years, McFerrin and her husband moved to Michigan, where they’ve been for the last three years.
Kalamazoo has a great music scene, she said. She played out in the city on her own for the past year and a half before deciding to release her first album.
The five-track EP is titled “The Wolves.”
“It’s a collection of bittersweet life experiences set to song,” McFerrin said. “I don’t have a lot of happy songs. Mostly bittersweet and heartache.”
The songs include “Momma Said,” “Liquid Nitrogen,” “Words You Say,” “When a Gun Goes Off” and “The Wolves.”
The EP will be released July 19, but can be pre-ordered on iTunes or bandcamp.com
A CD release party will be at the Old Dog Tavern in Kalamazaoo July 19. Physical copies of the disc will be available for purchase at the event. It’s from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. and cover charge is $5.
The party will have three acts, with McFerrin playing in the middle.
It’ll start with three singer-songwriters in the round, each taking their turn to perform. Being a singer-songwriter herself, McFerrin said she wanted to pay homage to the singer-songwriter.
McFerrin’s act will include a lot of guests joining her on stage. By the end of her set, she said, there will be a full band on stage.
Shiny Shiny Black, a band from Goshen, will be the final act of the CD release party. When McFerrin recorded “The Wolves” at Electric Angel Studios in Goshen, a member of Shiny Shiny Black helped lay some of her tracks down. They became friends, so McFerrin wanted to have the band play at her show.
Also to help promote the album, McFerrin will go on a 10-day tour, including stops in Ohio, New York, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. She has a “9 to 5” job, she said, so she had to save up her vacation days for the tour. Her tour dates and locations are on her website, carriemcferrin.com
Currently, she has no plans for a CD release party in Warsaw, but she’s hoping to do something in the fall. In the past, she’s played at local establishments like The Saint Regis Club and Mad Anthony’s Lake City Taphouse.
For more information or details on McFerrin, her music and EP, visit:
http://carriemcferrin.bandcamp.com/
http://carriemcferrin.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-wolves-ep/id663885917[[In-content Ad]]
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She’s now preparing for her first CD release party in Kalamazoo, Mich.
McFerrin was born at Kosciusko Community Hospital to John and Kathy Sullivan. She was raised on the border of Pierceton and Warsaw, and graduated Whitko High School in 2001. In 2005, she graduated from Grace College.
Music has always been a part of her life. Her mom played the piano and her father played the guitar. She picked the guitar because it was cooler.
Besides her parents, her musical influences included The Cranberries, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones and Tom Petty, among others.
“I feel like I kind of do my own thing,” she said.
She ended up in Kalamazoo in a “roundabout way,” she said.
After graduating Grace, she married a high school baseball coach. They moved down to Atlanta, Ga., for four years.
“Georgia got me more into playing music from there being more professional musicians down there,” she said.
In Atlanta, she found a home as a rhythm guitarist and backing singer for country-blues band The Lindsay Rakers Band. The band opened for more well-known bands like Blues Traveler.
“It gave me quite a bit of confidence. I got an independent streak and a confidence streak,” she said.
After four years, McFerrin and her husband moved to Michigan, where they’ve been for the last three years.
Kalamazoo has a great music scene, she said. She played out in the city on her own for the past year and a half before deciding to release her first album.
The five-track EP is titled “The Wolves.”
“It’s a collection of bittersweet life experiences set to song,” McFerrin said. “I don’t have a lot of happy songs. Mostly bittersweet and heartache.”
The songs include “Momma Said,” “Liquid Nitrogen,” “Words You Say,” “When a Gun Goes Off” and “The Wolves.”
The EP will be released July 19, but can be pre-ordered on iTunes or bandcamp.com
A CD release party will be at the Old Dog Tavern in Kalamazaoo July 19. Physical copies of the disc will be available for purchase at the event. It’s from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. and cover charge is $5.
The party will have three acts, with McFerrin playing in the middle.
It’ll start with three singer-songwriters in the round, each taking their turn to perform. Being a singer-songwriter herself, McFerrin said she wanted to pay homage to the singer-songwriter.
McFerrin’s act will include a lot of guests joining her on stage. By the end of her set, she said, there will be a full band on stage.
Shiny Shiny Black, a band from Goshen, will be the final act of the CD release party. When McFerrin recorded “The Wolves” at Electric Angel Studios in Goshen, a member of Shiny Shiny Black helped lay some of her tracks down. They became friends, so McFerrin wanted to have the band play at her show.
Also to help promote the album, McFerrin will go on a 10-day tour, including stops in Ohio, New York, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. She has a “9 to 5” job, she said, so she had to save up her vacation days for the tour. Her tour dates and locations are on her website, carriemcferrin.com
Currently, she has no plans for a CD release party in Warsaw, but she’s hoping to do something in the fall. In the past, she’s played at local establishments like The Saint Regis Club and Mad Anthony’s Lake City Taphouse.
For more information or details on McFerrin, her music and EP, visit:
http://carriemcferrin.bandcamp.com/
http://carriemcferrin.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-wolves-ep/id663885917[[In-content Ad]]
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