Carol Hodge + Mary Lee Kortes + Hannah Sophie

Carol Hodge is a seven-fingered, piano-pounding, Yorkshire-dwelling Singer-Songwriter. Think Linda Ronstadt meets Chelsea Wolfe, but with fewer digits and a continuous existential crisis, sandwiched between bitter irony and relentless optimism. You won’t know whether to laugh or cry, but will definitely feel something.
Perhaps best known as live co-vocalist and keys player touring the Anarchopunk songs of Crass with The Ignorant Band around the globe, and keys player for newly reformed rock legends The Wildhearts, Carol's recently released fifth studio album EffortLess InSecurity is a dark, deep dive into piano-led prog rock.
As a solo live performer, Carol’s strength lies in her highly confessional and relatable lyricism, covering topics such as Neurodiversity, Self doubt/Self worth, Autistic Spectrum Masking, Tinnitus and the importance of building community. There is not a gig goes by without at least a few audience members confessing to Carol that she has made them cry during her performance, such is her openness and emotionality. Be warned!
Mary Lee Kortes is an internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter from New York, has released five CDs of original music, and has toured the world as both a headliner and opening act for such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Steve Earle and Joe Jackson.
Over her prolific 25-year career, Kortes has been hailed as “a masterful songwriter” (The Village Voice), whose songs have been praised as “so meticulously crafted they sound completely natural” (The New York Times). Her four original albums as the frontwoman of Mary Lee’s Corvette garnered Kortes widespread acclaim for her “keen observations of people and life” (New York Post), “catchy pop melodies and such honest looks at modern romance” (The Washington Post), and “delicately rich voice” (Entertainment Weekly).
On her latest album Will Anybody Know that I Was Here, Kortes crafts an uplifting and uncanny work with themes of trauma and grief, dreams of life beyond small Midwestern hometowns, mortality and legacy—and the emotions at its heart are deeply personal.