All posts by Margreta Silverstone

Jesse Palidofsky & Seth Kibel

We opened our 2024-2025 season on Friday, October 18, with Jesse Palidofsky and Seth Kibel.

Jesse’s music is quite wonderful. He brings artistry & social concern together in a very powerful way!  Author Parker Palmer

​Azalea City Recordings artist Jesse Palidofsky has won numerous songwriting awards.  His recording “Dancing Toward the Light” reached #5 Album on the International Folk Radio International charts and “I Am An Immigrant” was a #1 single.  His performances include Hugh’s Room (Toronto); “On Your Radar” (NYC); Washington Folk Festival, Phil Ochs Song Night, Common Ground Festival, FOCUS Music, Smithsonian Folk Life Festival and the National Theatre.  His new arrangement of “America the Beautiful” has garnered 72,000 views on Youtube.

Jesse will make you laugh, sigh and lift you up with his heartfelt songs and skilled musicianship. Love the harmonica, keyboards & guitar!  Diane
Crowe, WMCB-FM

Jesse will be joined by Seth Kibel at this performance. Sethseth kibel is one of the Mid-Atlantic’s premier woodwind specialists, working with some of the best bands in jazz, swing, and klezmer.  Wowing audiences on saxophone, clarinet, and flute, Seth has won a remarkable 30 Washington Area Music Awards (WAMMIES), including “Best World Music Instrumentalist”
and “Best Jazz Instrumentalist”.   Seth has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Carter Barron Amphitheatre, the Lowell Folk Festival, as well as on several European tours.  He appears with such notables as Sam Moore (Sam & Dave), Percy Sledge, The Coasters, and Daryl Davis.

Jesse’s heartfelt and soulful music draws us so easily into places of celebration, wonder, and a deeper sense of our connections to one another and to the greater life of Creation. Songwriter Ben Tousley

Thank you for your support of Carroll Cafe.

PS. Look at our Upcoming page for information on the next season.

 

 

Tom Prasada-Rao

Regrets – another artist gone

TOM PRASADA-RAO, a musician’s musician, passed away on June 19, 2024.

It is with sad news from the NYT that we let you know that Tom passed away on June 19, 2024. We’ve now lost 2 performers that graced our stage, made an impact on the very wide range of performers and music lovers, Tom and Phil Wiggins. They will both be sorely missed, and the Carroll Cafe team is very grateful that we were blessed by both musicians gracing our stage. The chance to perform locally, in an intimate venue, allowed them do what they loved close to home, with many friends in the audience.