The Jazzabels Bio
How do you explain a female folk duo that swings like Count Basie and rocks like the Rolling Stones?
The Jazzabels obey no musical boundaries with their transcendent harmonies, grooving guitars, freewheeling accordion and hook-laden original songs.
The Jazzabels, Cathy Carfagna and Kilissa McGoldrick, are a popular act around the North East acoustic music scene. Cramming people wall to wall at coffeehouses like hometown Buffalo's Coffee Bean Cafe, the Jazzabels fill the room with rhythm and sound. Their voices can soar in angelic sweetness one minute, and then dig down and rock the house while the audience becomes rhythm section and choir.
The Jazzabels bring you into a world where politicians would be issued electric guitars, people are free to sing out their troubles, and you can quit your day-job to answer the irresistible call of the open road. With classical training and pop sensibility, the duo's musical roots are in the blues, jazz, folk and country. Their sound has been compared to the Indigo Girls, Sheryl Crow, the Bangles, Maria Muldaur and Joan Baez. With their seamless harmonies, they evoke the Everly Brothers or Simon and Garfunkel.
With the indie release of their second CD Skyway last fall, the duo is
touring throughout the northeast, and last spring performed in Texas at the
Kerrville Folk Music Festival. Over the summer, Cathy sang back-up on tour
with the 10,000 Maniacs, including an appearance on national TV's Fox After
Breakfast; Kilissa is also the Director of MUSE, Musicians United for Superior
Education, a non-profit organization that provides traditional drumming and
dancing to Buffalo school children.
| Recordings | Want more information and sound samples? | ||
| Skyway | 1996 | DelMore Records | CD and Cassette |
| Cafe All Day | 1994 | DelMore Records | CD and Cassette |
| "Should I Wait?" | 1993 | DelMore Records | Cassette Single |
| Come Hell Or High Harmonies |
1991 | DelMore Records | Cassette (out of print) |
| Compilations | |||
| "Throughout The Year" | That Christmas CD | 1996 | Hot Wings Entertainment |
| "Little Harlem Hotel" | No Illusions: Buffalo Women Songwriters | 1994 | Hot Wings Entertainment |
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