About Carol
Carol on the cover of Bold Life Magazine
Carol Mallett Rifkin’s soaring voice shines.
An award winning vocalist (2x 2nd Place Mt. Airy, 1st place Dublin Pulaski, 1st place Mountain State Fair and more), musician, recording artist and veteran of many bands, she has performed on TV, radio, recordings, at festivals, in the 1985 BBC documentary “Down Home, Appalachia to Nashville” ( click link to see Carol dancing with fiddler Tommy Jarrell), the movie “Songcatcher”, the 2005 documentary “Rank Strangers”, 2009’s “Why Old Time” and more.
A long time member of the internationally known Green Grass Cloggers, she appeared with them in several Emmy Award Winning network productions and recently at the Smithsonian, MerleFest and Philadelphia Folk Festivals. A co- founder of the Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF), she formerly served as Assistant Director for 12 years. A journalist who writes about music for the Asheville Citizen Times http://www.citizen-times.com/entertainment, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, SingOut and more, she co-host’s WNCW’s (88.7 FM) award winning “This Old Porch” (alternating Sunday’s 3-6 p.m. with co-host John Fowler) http://www.wncw.org/ and appears at many of the traditional festivals in the region.
View a wonderful documentary short from Western Carolina University (created by Ross Dillen) about the traditional music history of the region: WCU four minute documentary on mountain traditions narrated by Carol Rifkin
Available for concerts with the Paul’s Creek Band and their state of the art sound system. Focused on singing and harmonies with old time instrumentation, they can provide for everything from a cozy evening to a large concert of old timey, vintage bluegrass, early country and original songs OR educational programs, down home big circle square dances and clogging. Contact Carol: Carol Rifkin
(Wonderful Bold Life Magazine Cover Art by James Pitilli http://www.jamesflames.com/)