Carolyn Striho

 

Regarded as one of the city’s best

 singer/songwriters, Carolyn Striho

 made her name as a songwriter and

 singer fronting the dynamic Detroit

 Energy Asylum, and for her work

with Patti Smith. As a solo

performer, Carolyn gained a

reputation for charismatic,

high-energy stage performances on

 vocals, guitar and keyboards. Backed

 by a great band, her live shows

have been hailed as both moving

and memorable. With her new CD

Word Attack already winning the

 Outstanding Acoustic/Folk CD of

the Year in the 2014 Detroit Music

 Awards and just back from Italy

and another European tour, she

 has worked through a serious

illness with breast cancer and

battled back to the stage!

 

Carolyn has been nominated for

nearly 50 Detroit Music Awards in

recent years, winning several, and

she has performed at Lollapalooza,

and in Rome, Italy at Donne In

Musica several times, tours in

England and several months

performing in Japan. Carolyn also

 performed with legendary

 producer Don Was at Detroit’s

Concert of Colors, toured through

 Chicago, Toronto and the Midwest,

 performed many times at

Michigan’s Arts Beats & Eats, The

Ann Arbor Summer Festival,

Mackinac Island Music Festival,

 Porcupine Mountains Festival,

 Wyandotte Street Art Fair, Chicago,

 Toronto, Grand Marais Festival,

Detroit’s Dally in the Alley, People’s

 Arts Festival, Metro Times Blowouts

 and other outstate festival, clubs

and art galleries.

 

In other awards, Carolyn’s CD

Honesty won the Outstanding

Rock/Pop CD of the Year in 2010’s
Detroit Music Awards and has

garnered much airplay. Carolyn and

 band won the Outstanding Indie
Label Group of the Year in Detroit in

 2012, Outstanding Acoustic Act

2011, Outstanding Instrumentalist

– Acoustic 2010 and Outstanding

 Electronica/Techno Recording 2010

 for “Promised Land Remix.”

Carolyn’s videos, including

“Promised Land” and “Sing it to Me”

 have been nominated and screened

 for several music awards as well in

 Germany and other US independent

 film festivals.

 

Carolyn played with Patti Smith and

 the Patti Smith Group on several

tours, including London’s
Meltdown in 2005 at the Royal

Festival Hall and Patti’s comeback

 tour in 1995. Carolyn recently
performed in 2013 with Patti and

her band again at the Majestic

Theatre in Detroit. Carolyn opened

 for folk artist Steve Earle in London,

 U.K. several years ago and has

 performed with Iggy Pop and

 the legendary Ramones. Carolyn

had a huge honor performing at the

 Detroit International Jazz Festival

 in 2009.  Carolyn’s Detroit Energy

 Asylum featured Don Was’ Was

(Not Was) Band, as one of

 Detroit’s premier, live bands.

 

As Detroit’s Metro Times said

recently, “Word Attack is a

true-to-form seven-track

mini–album from Detroit’s

rocker-turned-chanteuse. The title

track has some driving guitar and

 sugary-pissed vocals, while ‘Always

 in my Heart’ is an acoustic gem

typical of contemporary Striho. Plus,

 ‘Enchante,’ a staple of the live show

for some time, is excellent.”

Carolyn and guitarist Scott Dailey’s

 “East of Eden” and “Word Attack”

are being used in a new film
“Tough Luck” featuring stories of

Detroit, with a movie release from

 Chicago in the Summer of 2015.

Carolyn recently appeared in a PBS

 film by Keith Famie, featuring

 outstanding Detroit singers with

 Jill Jack and the “Embrace”, as well

 as featuring Carolyn’s song,

“Promised Land” in the film. Carolyn,

 Scott and band appear in a terrific

 German film called “Motor City

Music” with legendary Detroit

artists, premiering in Germany and

 France and recently shown at the

 Montreal Film Festival and in

 London, U.K. With new reviews in

 London, Toronto and a new tour

being set up for 2015, Carolyn is

 recording another new album and

 working on a book.

 

This once teenaged punk/art

rocker playing in the clubs of

Detroit with her infamous bands the

 Cubes and Rough Cut, opening for

Iggy Pop, the Slits, Sonic’s

Rendezvous Band and the

Ramones, playing jazz and cabaret

 to folk and acoustic, she has come

a long way – Carolyn continues to

walk to her own drum down an

amazing path.