Eddie Owen Presents: Songwritersin the ORund: Dede Vogt - Caroline Aiken - trina & Tomi

                              DEDE VOGT has earned a gold record for her work with The Indigo Girls and sings with a deep, husky voice that echoes with experience. She is responsible for helping to nurture the Atlanta music scene and has led the way for folk musicians for quite some time. As a multi-instrumentalist, her wide range of influences and provocative style help to create magic. “She has been my idol for so long, I used to sneak into her shows at The Harvest Moon Saloon when I was 16 and then I’d come home and try to play her songs. She is the backbone and then I’d come home and try to play her songs. She is the backbone of the acoustic scene.” – Michelle Malone

Years of constant touring/performing, beginning in 1969 in NY, California, South America, Seattle- NW and Europe, CAROLINE AIKEN moved back to her birth town of Atlanta, GA, in the late 70's, (opening for acts Arlo Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Doc Watson, Randy Newman, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, 38 Special, Beach Boys, Janis Ian, Richie Havens...), where her bluesy voice, masterful finger picking guitar style and hypnotizing stage presence anchored the city's acoustic and folk scene, influencing up and coming artists whom she took under her wing, including Indigo Girls and Shawn Mullins.

Her unforgettable, one-of-a-kind voices, her deeply rooted in personal experience and storied songs, her masterful instrumentation on guitars and piano, the teaching of her Zen and The Art of Performance workshop nationally and internationally (also at the Otis Redding Songwriter Camp at the GMHF), her 12 years as Entertainment Director at the Atlanta Dogwood Festival and her 45 years of live performance and 8 self produced recordings create an experience that you can't shake, and won't want to. -Georgia Music Hall of Fame, 2011