Caitlin Cary is an alt-country musician from Seville, Ohio.
Background
Her entire family was involved in music to some degree, with her parents" love for singing and her father"s interest in building instruments. In addition to the violin, she also played her father"s harpsichords, where she wrote some of her own songs.
Education
North Carolina State University. College of Wooster.
Career
Caitlin Cary was the youngest of seven siblings (all older brothers). She had begun to play the violin at age five, but put it aside as a teenager. Cary went to college at the College of Wooster in Ohio.
She began working on a degree in English.
During her college time, she picked up playing the violin again, and she formed a small "jokey" band called Garden Weasels. After graduating from the College of Wooster, she enrolled in the graduate program in creative at North Carolina State.
During this time, in 1993, musician Ryan Adams contacted Cary and asked her if she would play violin in a band that he was starting. Cary agreed to join, and they formed Whiskeytown.
Cary released her first solo European Parliament, Waltzie, in 2000.
She has since released two full-length solo albums and an album of duets with Thad Cockrell. Cary has collaborated on albums with such artists as Tres Chicas, Alejandro Escovedo, Kenny Roby, Something Foreign Kate and Greg Hawks and The Tremblers. In 2013, Cary co-founded the North Carolina Music Love Army with Jon Lindsay.
The collective of North Carolina-based musicians created an LP entitled, We Are Not Foreign Sale: Songs of Protest, to oppose the regressive actions of the North Carolina General Assembly.
The album was released worldwide via Redeye Distribution on November 26, 2013.