Caroline Dahl is an American

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

and composer of

boogie-woogie Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since 1870s.Paul, Elliot, ''That Crazy American Music'' (1957), Chapter 10, p. 229. It was eventually extended from pian ...

and

American roots music The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as ''traditional music'', ''traditional folk music'', ''contemporary folk music'', ''vernacular music,'' or ''roots music''. Many traditional songs have been sung ...

. She is originally from Louisville, Kentucky, where she played with the Metropolitan Blues All Stars. She has lived in San Francisco for more than 30 years, where she performs solo around the Bay area and with Tom Rigney & Flambeau. She also performed frequently for more than 25 years at Sunday brunches at Mama's Royal Café (now closed) in Mill Valley. Dahl is also an award-winning fiber artist. The American Music Research Foundation calls Dahl "a self-taught master of the American roots styles of

Boogie woogie Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since 1870s.Paul, Elliot, ''That Crazy American Music'' (1957), Chapter 10, p. 229. It was eventually extended from pia ...

Blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

, vintage R&B,

Jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

, Swing, and

Country Swing Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, which attracted huge crowds to dance ha ...

." She has headlined at festivals in the United States, Europe and Canada, including the International Boogie Woogie Festival in Switzerland, the Festival de Blues in Barcelona, and the Motor City Boogie Woogie Festival in Detroit.

Discography

* 2005: ''No Hats'' (Globe Records) * 2006: ''Night House'' (Globe Records) * 2013: ''Devil Digit Boogie Woogie'' (Hexadact Records) * 2021: ''A 'Boogie Woogie State of Mind (Hexadact Records)

References

External links

Caroline Dahl website

Globe Records website

Tom Rigney website Swanee River Boogie Woogie by Caroline Dahl, San Francisco
Living people Boogie-woogie pianists 21st-century American pianists Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-pianist-stub