Event

EDIE CAREY

The Firefly Concert Series presents - Edie Carey

The Firefly Concert Series presents it's last concert of the 2017 season with the very special voice of Edie Carey!

About Edie -

-Best Childrens Album, Independent Music Awards (2014)

-Parents Choice Gold Award (2014)

-NAPPA Gold Award (2014)

-Family Choice Gold Award (2014)

-Winner, Kerrville New Folk Competition (2012)

-Finalist, Rocky Mountain Folks Songwriter Showcase (2012)

-#1 in Fan Voting, Lilith Fair Chicago Competition (2010)

-A Most Requested Artist, Cayamo w/ Brandi Carlile, Lyle Lovett (2010)

-Winner, Paste Magazines Cayamo Songwriting Contest (2009)

-Finalist, Kerrville New Folk Competition (2007)

-Featured Act, Public Radio Internationals Mountain Stage (2005)

-Grand Prize, Guitar Centers Producer Project Contest (2004)

-Telluride Bluegrass Troubadour Competition, 2nd Place (2004)

-Rocky Mountain New Song Contest, Finalist (2003 & 2004)

-Album of the Year, Independent Music Awards, Nominee (2004)

-Songs Featured on Charmed & MTVs Road Rules & Real World & several commercials and independent films

Chicago-based singer-songwriter Edie Carey is known for her unmistakable, soulful voice, her intelligent, heart-grabbing songs, but perhaps most especially for her warm, engaging presence on and off stage. As much a part of her show as the music itself, Careys wry and often self-mocking humor makes audiences feel as though they have just spent an evening with a very close friend.

Carey has been singing at festivals, colleges, and listening rooms across the US, Canada and Europe since 1999, performing alongside Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Brandi Carlile, and Shawn Mullins. Shes also been a featured artist on NPRs Mountain Stage.

Her latest offering, Til The Morning, a joint effort with award-winning singer-songwriter Sarah Sample, was funded entirely by their loyal and steadily growing legion of fans, as were Careys previous three records. Produced by Scott Wiley, the duos CD features appearances by cellist and vocalist Mai Bloomfield (Jason Mraz, Raining Jane), violist Aaron Ashton (Peter Cetera, Smokey Robinson) and Sam Cardon (Composer, My Girlfriends Boyfriend, Olympic Winter Games).

THE LONGER STORY

Accidental Poet, one of Edie Careys earliest songs, describes a particularly eloquent friend, but could just as easily refer to Carey herself and the circuitous and serendipitous route that led her to become one of the countrys most notable songwriters. Somehow, all of the seemingly unrelated turns from her intention to become a doctor, to a tiny music venue in the basement of a Morningside Heights chapel, to a year in Italy managed to steer her towards music.

Born in Burlington, Vermont and raised in the Boston suburbs by her English teacher father, therapist mother, and poet stepmother, Carey couldnt help but learn to love words. But her ear for music would not become apparent until age five, when, in the back seat of her babysitters green Cadillac, she belted out an impassioned childs rendition of Up Where We Belong. From age nine, after beginning voice lessons, she became involved in singing groups and musicals. A true child of the 80s, she dressed in lace and sequins, worshiped Debbie Gibson, and dreamed of appearing on Ed McMahons Star Search. However, as much as she loved performing, Carey was unaware that there was any middle ground between singing at weddings and being Madonna, and never considered music a real career possibility. So, she made plans to major in English with Pre-Med classes at Barnard College in New York City. However, during her freshman year, two pivotal discoveries knocked those plans right off course: the Postcrypt Coffeehouse and the Italian language.

In the Postcrypt, an intimate music venue in the basement of St. Pauls Chapel at Columbia University, Carey watched performers like Jeff Buckley, Ani DiFranco, Ellis Paul and Lisa Loeb perform unplugged to candlelit and rapt audiences and was floored by the power of their songwriting. Around the same time, she had begun studying and falling in love with the almost melodic Italian language. That passion for learning Italian eventually led her to spend a year abroad in Bologna where she taught herself to play the guitar.

In Italy, Carey set herself up in a corner of Bolognas main piazza and shakily played every Bonnie Raitt, Shawn Colvin, and Rickie Lee Jones song she knew, nervously throwing in a few of her own tunes, some of which would later land on her 1998 debut album, The Falling Places. Her experience abroad gave her a newfound confidence and encouraged her to begin performing on campus when she returned to Barnard, where she started to build a student following. She made her first album in 1997, working days at Worth Magazine and recording until the wee hours each night.

After the release of The Falling Places in 1998, she began venturing outside of New York City to play neighboring east coast cities, and gradually expanded throughout the United States, then Canada and the UK. While the debut was a very sparsely-produced acoustic contemporary folk album, Call Me Home, Careys follow-up in 2000, was by comparison an all-out pop record, a tribute to her early pop inspirations. With its release, the accidents continued, and Carey unexpectedly found herself achieving her childhood dream of appearing on television with Ed McMahon when, in 2001, she competed on Ed McMahons Next Big Star.

For the last fifteen years, Carey has been working as a full-time performing songwriter, touring rigorously to promote all of her independently self-released records, which now include Come Close, her 2002 live CD, When I Was Made (2004), Another Kind of Fire (2006), itsgonnabegreat (2008) (a collaboration with award-winning singer-songwriter Rose Cousins), 2010?s Bring The Sea, and the latest addition to her growing catalog, Til The Morning: Lullabies and Songs of Comfort, a duo album with her close friend Sarah Sample. Looking back, Carey has to wonder if shes accidentally ended up exactly where she was supposed to be.

Location

On the water in West Seattle (View)
5075 Beach Dr SW
Seattle, WA 98136
United States

Contact

Owner: Jennifer

On BPT Since: Sep 06, 2011

Firefly Concert Series

ediecarey.com/media.html

Attendees

Emily S.

Shoreline, WA United States

Oct 24, 2017 9:06 AM

Jeremy G.

Shoreline, WA United States

Oct 24, 2017 9:06 AM

Name Withheld

seattle, WA United States

Sep 22, 2017 5:34 PM

Lori F.

seattle , WA United States

Sep 20, 2017 1:49 PM

Mj K.

seattle, WA United States

Sep 19, 2017 11:17 PM

Name Withheld

Seattle, WA United States

Sep 19, 2017 10:21 PM

Cindy P.

Seattle, WA United States

Sep 19, 2017 7:40 PM

Laura S.

Normandy Park,, WA United States

Sep 19, 2017 11:07 AM

Name Withheld

Seattle, WA United States

Sep 18, 2017 9:49 PM

Name Withheld

Seattle, WA United States

Sep 18, 2017 9:49 PM

Lisa S.