

She helped found a new online concert platform, Mandolin, with her husband Robert Meitus and has continued to perform and present workshops in person and online.

Spirituality and Health Magazine named Parker & Carrie in the top ten spiritual leaders for the next 20 years.ĭuring the COVID-19 pandemic, Carrie was involved with many creative online projects, including the creation of her own streaming studio, Available Light Studios. Together they create live events, personal growth retreats, and the highly rated The Growing Edge Podcast that features authors, activists, poets and musicians, and online conversation starters for book and other conversation groups. Palmer on several projects, including The Growing Edge collaboration which explores growing edges, personally, vocationally and politically. In recent years Carrie joined with the author Parker J. In 2019 she received The Shalem Institutes's Contemplative Voices Award. In 2016 Carrie was awarded an honorary degree in Music for Social Change from Goshen College. In 2015 Carrie's first musical, Betty's Diner: The Musical was produced by Purdue University. In 2013 Carrie traveled to Kenya and the Middle East, performing in schools, spiritual communities and hospitals assisting AIDS patients. In 20 Newcomer was invited by the American Embassy of India to be a cultural ambassador, resulting in her interfaith benefit album Everything is Everywhere with master of the Indian Sarod, Amjad Ali Khan. Recent appearances include PBS Religion and Ethics and Krista Tippett's On Being. Her song "I Should've Known Better" appeared on Nickel Creeks' Grammy-winning gold album This Side, and she earned an Emmy for her PBS special An Evening with Carrie Newcomer. Newcomer has released three books of poetry & essays, A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays, The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems and Essays & Lyrics, and Until Now: Poetry by Carrie Newcomer. Carrie has 19 nationally released albums on Available Light & Concord/Rounder Records including Until Now, The Point of Arrival and The Beautiful Not Yet. She has been described as a "prairie mystic" by the Boston Globe and one who "asks all the right questions" by Rolling Stone Magazine. The quintet tours an average of 75 dates annually while continuing to bring world-class music to people.Ĭarrie Newcomer is a songwriter, recording artist, performer and educator. In 2020, Tammy Rogers, Michael Fleming, Richard Bailey, Brent Truitt and Kelvin Damrell (his first project as lead vocals) released the chart-topping “Bad For You” to both industry and media aplomb.2021 brought the latest member on board, lead singer Matt Dame.

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Other accolades include a cameo in the Murray flick “Get Low,” music placement in various TV and movies including the popular drama “Yellowstone,” and specially recordings with the military group Six String Soldiers. In 2018 the group made Grand Ole Opry history as the quintet was joined by superstars John Prine and Bill Murray on the revered stage to perform.

Their accomplishments continued with the highly anticipated 2015 “The Muscle ShoalsRecordings” that also won a GRAMMY for Best Bluegrass Album, as well as three IBMA nominations forAlbum, Song, Songwriter (Tammy Rogers) and Liner Notes (Peter Cooper) of the Year honors. The group’s star continued to rise with the release “Hammer Down” that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Charts. Again in 2010, the group’s sophomore effort “Reckless”, received two more nods for Best Bluegrass Album and Best Country Performance by a Duo of Group with Vocal, courtesy of the universally popular hit Where Rainbows Never Die. The venerable Rounder Records immediately signed the band and released their eponymous debut in 2008 that scored their first GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group w/ Vocal for the song Blue Side Of The Mountain. What began as a casual jam session over a decade ago has become one of today’s leaders in the Americana/ Bluegrass music world.
