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Library After Hours: Live Music with Carly Harvey

2025-07-11 19:00:00 2025-07-11 20:00:00 America/New_York Library After Hours: Live Music with Carly Harvey P.D. Brown Memorial Branch -

Friday, July 11
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-07-11 19:00:00 2025-07-11 20:00:00 America/New_York Library After Hours: Live Music with Carly Harvey Join us and DC's Carly Harvey Trio for an evening of music and fun! P.D. Brown Memorial Branch -

Join us and DC's Carly Harvey Trio for an evening of music and fun!

Please note: this is a Library After Hours event and takes place when the library is normally closed.
Doors will open for the public for the event at 6:45 PM.

Join us for an incredible evening of live music at the P.D. Brown Branch Library featuring "DC's Queen of Blues," Carly Harvey! Enjoy an intimate performance filled with a unique blend of sound!

About the artist: Based out of Washington, DC, Carly Harvey combines Blues, Jazz, Soul and Americana Roots styles to create a unique sound that calls to mind Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, and Nina Simone, with a little Ella Fitzgerald thrown in for good measure. In July 2018, Carly was featured in Big City Blues Magazine as one of the youngest Blues artists to watch. She has had the privilege of sharing the stage with iconic musicians including Annika Chambers, Ron Holloway, Kebbie Williams, Ephraim Owens, Cory Henry, Kofi Burbridge, Junior Marvin, and Susan Tedeschi - an artist whose work has been foundational to her musical evolution.

Carly is a two time D.C. Blues Society Battle of the Bands Winner (Duo - 2016, Band - 2018) and was proclaimed D.C.'s Queen of the Blues in 2016 by Dr. Nick Johnson of WPFW Radio. Her band, Kiss & Ride represented Washington D.C. in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in January of 2019 where they advanced to the semi-finals. That same year, Carly released a new EP titled Kiss & Ride: Vol. 1, and the hit single, "She Ain't Me" is now charting on regional blues radio stations. She was shortly after voted 2nd place for Best Performance Artist in Washington City Paper's " Best of D.C. 2019".

In 2021, Carly was nominated 7 times and won the WAMMIE award for Best Blues Artist/Band.

International crossover album titled Among The Stars and an EP titled Y.A.M.W.A.O. with Italian producer/composer Taste of Dream is an additional project that has allowed Carly to explore an element of her musicianship beyond the Blues. The single, "Caruso" from Among The Stars has been charting in Italy, Spain and Germany for the past 4 years and made its way on to Cosmopolis, a compilation of Radio Monte Carlo by Papa DJ on the Warner Music Italy label.

Carly is a Tsalagi and Tuscarora descendant and it is her belief that Blues not only comes from the African American experience but is actually directly influenced by Indigenous American Minor Pentatonic Melodies and Stomp Dance Songs. She occasionally offers master classes to educate people about the music that gives her so much pride in her Afro-Indigenous heritage.

This is a drop-in event, no registration required.

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Special Presenter | Community Engagement |

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Charles County Public Library events are accessible for all. If you have an accessibility request, please contact programs@ccplonline.org three business days prior to the event.

P.D. Brown Memorial Branch

Phone: 301-645-2864

Hours
Mon, Jul 28 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Jul 29 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jul 30 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Jul 31 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Aug 01 1:00PM to 5:00PM
Sat, Aug 02 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Aug 03 Closed

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