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About Me

Carey Farrell likes to sing. Sometimes, she sings her own songs, about kindergarten romance and grocery store girls and asparagus. Sometimes, she sings songs by other people, like Joni Mitchell and the Monkees and David Bowie. And sometimes, she just likes to sing about the wheels on the bus, and how they go round and round, round and round, all thru the town.

Carey likes to sing for big people, small people, and all the people in between. And she will sing anywhere she can. No, really, just about anywhere, as long as people will be nice to her and listen--coffeehouses, churches, farmer's markets, birthday parties, street corners, living rooms, festival campsites, you name it. Maybe you would like Carey to sing for you sometime. I bet she'd be happy to do it, and I should know.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/3/2005
Band Members: Carey Farrell (vocals, acoustic guitar, musical toys)
Influences: Dar Williams, Nerissa Nields, Joni Mitchell, Richard Shindell, We're About 9, Dave Carter, Girlyman, Stacey Kityana, Andrew Bird, Moxy Fruvous, Susan Werner, R.E.M., Uncle Bonsai, They Might Be Giants, 10,000 Maniacs, The Monkees
Sounds Like: Dar Williams with even more words. Joni Mitchell in (mostly) standard tuning. Vashti Bunyan with a sense of cynicism. Herself.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

spring 2008. yeah.

So what’s going on in the land of Carey? Honestly, I’ve been pretty busy, which may explain why I haven’t updated this blog in...um...months. Grad school continues to eat up most of ...
Posted by carey farrell on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:52:00 PST

summer 2007

The weather may not agree with me, but in my mind, it's fall already. My students are back from their two-week vacation (because even four-year-olds need vacations), the choir I sing in and the kids' ...
Posted by carey farrell on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:43:00 PST

spring 2007 updates

Wow. I always forget about this thing.It's been a busy year so far, and it's only April. I've played a bunch of shows, recorded an episode of Chicago Acoustic Underground, and otherwise been up to my ...
Posted by carey farrell on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:04:00 PST

summer updates

I always forget that I have a blog here...I've been a slave to Livejournal for too long. I'm having a great summer so far, full of playing out, discovering great new music, teaching, being a student a...
Posted by carey farrell on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:55:00 PST

music for mother's day

Thanks to everyone who spent some of their Mother's Day with me at the Pick A Cup--we had a great time singing favorite kids' songs and some of my original kids' stuff, and Benjy made his coffeehouse ...
Posted by carey farrell on Thu, 18 May 2006 09:41:00 PST

or...maybe not

Hey kids...remember how I kept saying that my show this week was actually gonna happen this time? Well...I was wrong. The venue? Has closed.Bah.
Posted by carey farrell on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:52:00 PST

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Posted by carey farrell on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:27:00 PST

and the quacking snakes go quack

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Pick A Cup last night...and thanks especially to my preschool friends for the rockin' kiddie mosh pit and all the hugs. In other news, I just realized that I'...
Posted by carey farrell on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:37:00 PST

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Posted by carey farrell on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:31:00 PST

big news!

I'm engaged! To the best boy in the world! And I'm so! Excited! Exclamation point!*dance*Also, on the musical news front, I've got shows coming up at the Pick A Cup Coffee Club in Evanston, and at Mel...
Posted by carey farrell on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:45:00 PST