User:Caroileanne

Caroileánne (pronounced car·aul·lee·AAN) is an American musician, entrepreneur and photographer. She was born Carolyn Elaine Riveire on April 20th, 1958.

Early life

Caroileánne was born in Pasadena, Texas, of Scots-Irish, French and Dutch descent to parents John Paul Riveire (a chemist) and Martha Louise Sheets (a professional musician and teacher). She moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 1959. At 8 years of age, her mother began to teach her to play the piano and read music. At age 9 (4th grade) she joined an orchestra class on the violin. At age 12 (7th grade) she started learning the transverse (European) flute.

Discography

Caroileánne's first album, Sentiments, was finished in 2007, followed by Crossing Meadows (2009), Ode to Ireland (2010), Canyon Sounds (2011), Long Way to Go (2011), Revelations (2012), Pastiche (2013), and Kaleidoscope (2014).

Biography

Caroileánne was born into a musical family, as her mother was a professional music teacher and oboist. Caroileánne started playing the piano at 8 years of age. She then learned to play the violin at age 9 and the flute at 11, in public school. She auditioned and earned a seat in the Fort Worth Junior All-City Orchestra on violin during middle school. In high school, she was in the marching band & orchestra, on the flute and piccolo. At college she was in the marching, concert and jazz bands as well as orchestra, on the transverse flute and piccolo and briefly, the oboe. She has been composing and performing her original music since 1999. She now also plays acoustic and electric and classical guitar, Irish pennywhistles, piano accordion, keyboards, cedar & bamboo flutes, lap harp, mandolin, banjo, orchestra bells, zither, the French bombard oboe and is learning the clarinet and C Melody saxophone. She writes, performs and records folk, Irish, Native American, symphonic, New Age and jazz music. She is currently (2015) a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, music producer, photographer and business entrepreneur. She has founded many small businesses, including Show Notes, Show Notes Texas, Round Rock Musicians, Gig Watch TX, Texas Stage Promotions and Elaina's.

Partnerships

During 2006 and 2007, she recorded music with a guitarist and vocalist in the Austin, Texas area named Bob Norton. In 2009 she met and recorded with a Native American recording musician, vocalist, songwriter, music engineer and producer named "Tanka", with whom she recorded two songs, including "Dancing With Mother Earth".