Singer-songwriter to perform in Sisters

Singer-songwriter Craig Carothers will bring his well-tuned road act to Sisters on Thursday, July 27, for a Sisters Folk Festival Benefit Show.

The show will begin at 7 p.m. at the Americana Studies Center within the new Sisters Art Works Building at 204 W. Adams Ave. in Sisters. Local singer/songwriters Allan Byer with Dean Prescott will open the show.

The venue holds 80 people and a sell-out is likely. Advance tickets are $10 and are available at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters or Santiago’s Mate Company in Redmond.

In the last three years alone Carothers has driven 80,000 miles to play in more than 50 cities in 20 states. When you figure in the airplanes and rental cars, it adds up to a lot of scenery and a lot of songs. For Craig Carothers, the journey, and the songs, began in the Pacific Northwest. Craig’s parents were both music teachers. Around the house, sounds ranged from Brubeck to Mancini; Victor Borgé to Jonathan Winters. Later influences included Motown, Joni Mitchell, Tom Lehrer and The Beatles.

Venues were plentiful around his home in Portland and Carothers spent more than 20 years playing almost every night of the week inside a 40-mile radius. During that time, he toured with or opened for a wide variety of acts: Mose Allison, Karla Bonnoff, Jonatha Brooke, Rosanne Cash, Bruce Cockburn, Warren Zevon and many others.

Things changed in 1995, when country music star Trisha Yearwood recorded his song “Little Hercules.” He hung a gold record on the wall and started traveling to Nashville on a regular basis.

In 2000, he made Nashville his home. Trips back to the West Coast started to include stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City.

In recent years Carothers’ songs have been recorded by artists including: Kathy Matea, Lorrie Morgan, Sons Of The Desert, Kate Markowitz, Andrea Zonn, Steve Seskin, Berkley Hart, and Peter, Paul and Mary.

For more information on the Craig Carothers Show contact Allan Byer at [email protected] or 923-3505. For more information on the Sisters Folk Festival or the Americana Studies Center, visit http://www.sistersfolkfestival.org or call 549-4979.