Casa del Bistro proudly presents Carolina Story, (and it’s my significant Birthday!)
Recommended Donations: (All donation goes to the artist)!
$20 per seat pre-order (plus minimal third party processing fees) See the DONATE TO CAROLINA STORY button, below!
Please RSVP! If you prepay, below, you don’t need to RSVP!
$25 per seat at the door
Doors open at 7:00 PM. Show starts around 7:45 PM.
BYOB and bring hors d'oeuvres or snacks to share!
Adults only, Please
7614 Eleventh Hour Ln
West Chester, OH 45069
A husband-and-wife Americana duo, Carolina Story create powerfully atmospheric songs with the combination of their heartfelt stories of love and struggle and the honesty and passion of their vocals. Focusing on the realities of small-town life, their music reflects joy and sorrow in nearly equal measure while stubbornly maintaining that love can overcome it all. While the band began releasing material not long after they formed, they first hit their stride in the studio with 2018's Lay Your Head Down, following that creative breakthrough with 2020's Dandelion. 2023's Colors of My Mind offered a deeply personal song cycle of struggle and change.
With Ben hailing from Arkansas and Emily originally from South Dakota, the two musicians first crossed paths at college in Memphis and formed the band during a camping trip to North Carolina early on in their courtship. Over the next decade, Carolina Story built a passionate grassroots following by touring all over the country and performing stripped-down live sets that included using a hardshell suitcase as a kick drum, eventually making their Grand Ole Opry debut in 2014. “We have three kids now and at the time I was eight months pregnant with our son,” says Emily. “It was definitely one of the biggest highlights of our career to sing onstage at this place that’s so legendary and beautiful, with me about to give birth to our first child.” Along with earning recognition as a captivating live act, Carolina Story have turned out critically lauded albums like 2018’s Lay Your Head Down (praised by Pop Matters for “evok[ing] the chemistry of early alt-country darlings Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris”). But as both members point out, the creation of Colors of My Mind marked an undeniable breakthrough for the band. “In a lot of ways we shouldn’t have made this record—we didn’t have a label anymore, we had no idea how we were going to pay for it, we didn’t even really know why we were doing it,” says Ben. “It felt like there was some kind of force that was steering the whole thing, and we both knew we had to give ourselves over to it. Going forward, I think we’ll continue to create from that place of letting the music speak to us.”