THe DreamsICLes - Cooldog House Concerts

THe DreamsICLes
Cary Cooper | Tom Prasada-rao
WWW.THeDreamSICLeS.COM
“Cleverly-worded pop confections that
swiftly live up to the pair’s billing”
Mike Joyce, The Washington Post
Introducing The Dreamsicles - the Texas based folk/pop
duo featuring Tom Prasada-Rao and Cary Cooper. Two
voices and a guitar, intricate harmonies with a little
cheerleading thrown in, singing love songs for grown ups.
They've been touring together for two years, and have just
finished their second CD.
Both Tom and Cary are Kerrville New Folk Competition Winners accomplished songwriters in their own right. They draw
on their experience in classical violin, musical theater,
raising kids, and living in the third world to create songs
which navigate the territory between Everything But The Girl
and Leonard Cohen, Lucy Kaplansky and Krishna Das.
"A hot new CD from The Dreamsicles!
More acoustic than their first release,
"Luv Songs For Grown Ups" captures their
spirit and style perfectly. A winner!"
Ron Olesko, WFDU Fordham University
Tom Prasada-Rao and Cary Cooper fell in love in the
spring of 2002. They started writing songs together almost
immediately, songs that describe the roller coaster ride of
finding love again later in life. They set out to create
something different, not for 13 year olds with allowance
money, but for parents with mortgages and divorces. Soon
their songs started developing a certain motif; celebrating
the experience, the fear, the sexuality, and the longing of
those who have actually been around the block.
The Dreamsicles second album Luv Songs For Grown Ups picks
up where their self-titled debut left off. Like their live
shows, it's honest, vulnerable, and sassy. They aren't
afraid to laugh at themselves or to wear their hearts on
their sleeves, and they open the door for their audiences
to do the same. In it's first month on folk radio, "Luv
Songs" charted 4th in the Top Album category and The
Dreamsicles charted 8th as Top Artists.They've been
nominated for three Just Plain Folks awards including
Contemporary Album of the Year.
“Stealing the show was the Dreamsicles' Cary Cooper
whose duets with Tom Prasada-Rao were some of the
best I've ever heard. It's as if their voices were
destined to meet, two people connecting soul to soul."
Bryn Benson, On The Map Concerts
THe DreamsICLes
Cary Cooper
ph. 214.562.2258
The summer of 2004 began with Cary Cooper winning the
New Folk Competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Since then she's
been a finalist in the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival's Emerging Artist
Showcase, and Mountain Stage's NewSong contest. She received
three solo nominations in the Just Plain Folk Awards including
Female Singer-Songwriter Album of the Year. She has two solo albums
to her credit, Gypsy Train and her latest release, Yellow.
Cary Cooper's songs look at the world from a woman's point
of view, as a mother, a lover, and a woman who has found
strength in herself after looking everywhere else. She taught
dance for the United Spirit Association (a southern California
dance team that also included Paula Abdul and Teri Hatcher),
and she taught ESL to elementary school students in Dallas.
Cary was born and raised in Texas, and has two young
daughters. They are currently her favorite day job.
SELECT VENUE LIST
Ottowa Folk Festival
Mountain Stage Newsong Festival
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
The Boston Folk Festival
The Takoma Park Folk Festival, MD
The Kerrville Folk Festival, TX
Sisters Folk Festival, Bend OR
The Woody Guthrie Festival, Okemah OK
The Wildflower Festival, Richardson TX
OctoberFolk, The Brantford Folk Festival, Canada
Winter Park Folk Festival, CO
Jammin Java, Vienna VA
Little Lake Hill House Concerts, Raleigh NC
333 Coffeehouse, Annapolis MD
Schuba’s, Chicago IL
The Listening Room, Hastings NE
Swallow Hill, Denver CO
6850 North Shiloh Road, Box K-250, Garland, TX 75044
www.thedreamsicles.com, [email protected]
Tom Prasada-rao
ph. 512.699.7370
In 1993 Tom Prasada-Rao won the Kerrville New Folk Competition
and in 1998 he was voted most wanted at Falcon Ridge. He's
released five solo albums and sold over 25,000 copies. He
tours solo, with The Dreamsicles, and occasionally with the
Sherpas (with Tom Kimmel and Michael Lille). He produces albums,
most recently for Rachel Bissex. Tom Prasada-Rao teaches
songwriting at the University of Virginia, as well as guitar
clinics for Breedlove Guitars and Elixir Strings.
Tom Prasada-Rao’s songs mine the common ground between
spirituality and rhythm & blues, folk music and world music.
Tom was born in Ethiopia of Indian parents and raised in
Washington DC, where he would later win over a dozen
Wammies. He went to school in the US, England, and India,
and sometimes he still misses his old day job driving a truck.
Woodsongs Radio Hour, Lexington KY
(syndicated internationally on over 400 stations)
The Grey Eagle, Asheville NC
The Evening Star, Sautee-Nacoochee GA
(syndicated on Georgia Public Radio)
Godfrey Daniels, Bethlehem PA
Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY
Wooden Concerts, Kalispell MT
The Beanery, Billings MT
The Wild Basin, Austin TX
Fox Run House Concerts, Sudbury MA
The Flint Folk Music Society, Flint MI
Main Street Cafe, Homestead FL
Anderson Fair, Houston TX
Uncle Calvin’s Coffeehouse, Dallas TX
For Booking: [email protected], 214-403-5553
For more information including a downloadable press kit
please visit www.thedreamsicles.com