Carolyn mesmerizes audiences with her strong vocals, fiery keyboard and guitar, energetic performances, heartfelt and poetic melodies, spontaneous improvisation, torch songs and dance beats, but also with a gypsy flourish of modern music. Carolyn's most recent album, Afterthought, was on the GRAMMY® Awards 2018 First Ballot for Best Rock Album of the Year. Carolyn has won 11 Detroit Music Awards and a Billboard Magazine Award for her songwriting, albums, musicianship and live performances. Carolyn also has toured overseas six times in Europe, and also had a two-month tour of Japan. She's played many national and international festivals including Lollapalooza, Rome Italy's Donne In Musica, London U.K. Meltdown, and many more. Carolyn's musical resume is quite extensive, with highlights including opening for Steve Earle in England, and performing in Detroit, Toronto, Chicago, Frascati, Fiuggi and Rome, Italy and in London and Isle of Wight, U.K. Carolyn's also performed with Patti Smith on two tours, and with her band, Detroit Energy Asylum, which included many members of Was (Not Was). With a strong catalog of music, she is working on a new album for 2020 and a new U.K. tour. Carolyn is a Wayne State University Graduate (B.A., M.S., Ed.S.) and also a high school English teacher in Special Education in Metro Detroit. She has more memories of her DJ life on the radio (NPR/WDET-FM) and working in a law firm, and now lives in the Detroit area with her husband, Scott Dailey, and kitty.