CAROLINE AIKEN

“Sensual voice, expert guitar, masterful songwriting." Victory Music, Seattle
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"My Music is Georgia Music" TV commercial

Check out Caroline performing at the Mendicino Music Festival in California this summer.
Here's "Love Ain't Goin' Nowhere."

Caroline Aiken BIO:

Independent to the bone with 7CDs, and a Grammy nomination for a Contemporary Folk CD Grammy in 2006, Caroline Aiken has done numerous performances to benefit thousands of causes, and played thousands of shows in 40 years of touring at home and abroad. Writing, producing shows, festivals, theaters, and series, Caroline has also served 12 years as Entertainment Director for the Atlanta Dogwood Festival.

She has recorded with and shared stages with The Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt and has been a guest performer at major venues with them such as San Antonio’s Majestic Theater, Denver’s Red Rocks, and Berkeley’s Greek Theater. Caroline has headlined at the Kerrville TX’s Music Festival (Main Stage since ’95); Seattle’s Bumbershoot (since ’96); Folk Life Festival (since ’76); NY’s Falcon Ridge; Northern California’s High Sierra Music Festival.

Course description:
"How to Enjoy the Time on the Stage" teaches how to be an independent artist, a booking agent, a manager, a record label, and how to read the fine print, as well as song writing, and guitar-percussive finger style.


NEWS

Caroline at the Kerrville Folk Fest
in TX May 30th, 2010!

With the Indigo Girls and Terri Hendrix!

Stay tuned for more info...


"The Spawning Ground" music workshops

The workshop will give you a chance to learn from a touring seasoned performer/teacher and a student showcase. These teachers may never be this way or affordable again!

If you know someone who is getting started in performing, this is an optimum way to start a performance career.

Learn more about The Spawning Ground


 


Here is what just some of the critics and peers are saying about Caroline Aiken:

 "Caroline sings where I LIVE"
Jimmy Hall (Wet Willie)

  "Caroline is one of Atlanta's most talented and respected performing songwriters. I guarantee absolute joy for all listening to this woman play and sing."
 Eddie Owen of Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA

"I love your music … your songs are so honest and so genuine and so real … so well-written … and so well-performed … They come right from the heart and touch the soul."
Bob Stevenson-producer- public radio station KUHF Houston, Texas

"Aiken's guitar work is astonishing, especially as much of it, including slide, is on 12 strings…making this disc required listening for anyone who thinks s/he plays the blues or owns a 12 string…"
-Tom Petersen, Victory Review Magazine


“Anyone who’s ever heard the sultry, bluesy voice of Caroline Aiken knows she’s the real deal. She infuses each song with true grit and years of performing experience, sanding down the rough edges just a little with her
soft Southern drawl.”
-Mare Wakefield, DIY Salute, Performing Songwriter Magazine


"Caroline Aiken, often sighted as one of the cornerstones of the Decatur folk movement, has long been at the forefront of modern folk and acoustic expression… Her soothing, fine wood-grain voice purrs with a youthful
innocence one minute, then growls like a wise old blue singer the next, marking each song with her trademark, time-honed stamp of quality."
- Georgia Music Magazine


"…. Your performance was absolutely stellar. You made a bunch of new fans if the reactions I heard from the people was any indication.  I can speak for one avid new fan who is very definitely going to be following anything you do---and that's me.  Your stage presence and musicianship was fully as good or better than anything I have ever seen, and I've been a concert goer for most of my 50 something years. I will remember your version of "Madman Across the Water" as long as I have a memory…"
- Mendocino Music Festival Marketing Director, August 2006

 


Latest CD "Are We There Yet, Mama?"


Performing Songwriter Magazine DIY SPOTLIGHT - Nov 05

"Recorded live, the disc ... plays like a warm studio
collection, paired with the intimate immediacy of a club gig.  Her soothing, fine wood-grain voice purrs with a youthful innocence one minute, then growls like a wise old blue singer the next, marking each song with her trademark, time-honed stamp of quality."
Georgia Music Magazine 

"Perfect mix of superb songwriting, stellar musicianship... "Norm Prusslin, President  - Intercollegiate Broadcasting System/National College Radio Station Organization

"The Best Acoustic Act"
Atlanta Mag

"The Real Deal"
Performing Songwriter Mag

"Underground Legend"
Santa Cruz Goodtimes

"CA tears her 12 string a whole new consciousness"
Blue Suede News

"Sensual voice, masterful songwriting, expert guitar"
Victory Music Seattle

 
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