Radio show
Thanks to Rich Scher for having us on Licks & Lyrics, WCOM 103.5 FM, Carrboro, NC in February!
We played several songs off the upcoming album and had a great time. (Audio starts at 0:08.)
We -- Barry Gray and Isabel Valls -- are a singer songwriter duo whose voices blend in harmony and whose acoustic guitar styles perfectly complement each other. Originally drawn together by our shared love of acoustic music from the 60s and 70s, we write and perform original songs together. We are currently working on our first album.
Upcoming
4/4/26
Songwriters at Sursy
7pm
Sursy, 341 S. Main St, Burlington, NC
Event Details
4/4/26
Songwriters at Sursy
Join us at our favorite combination plant shop and bar!
7pm
Sursy, 341 S. Main St, Burlington, NC
4/22/26
Songwriters Over Yonder
7pm
Yonder Southern Cocktails and Brew, 114 W. King Street, Hillsborough, NC
Event Details
4/22/26
Songwriters Over Yonder
Hosted by Kirk Ridge; with Wes Collins
7pm
Yonder Southern Cocktails and Brew, 114 W. King Street, Hillsborough, NC
4/26/26
Barry Gray with Danny Gotham
TBD
Cameron Presbyterian Church, 600 Carthage St, Cameron, NC
4/26/26
Barry Gray with Danny Gotham
TBD
Cameron Presbyterian Church, 600 Carthage St, Cameron, NC
5/3/26
Barry & Isabel at Zimmerman Vineyards
3pm
1428 Tabernacle Church Road Trinity, NC
Event Details
5/3/26
Barry & Isabel at Zimmerman Vineyards
Two hours of our original songs, overlooking glorious rolling vineyards.
3pm
1428 Tabernacle Church Road Trinity, NC
5/10/26
Songwriters at Scuppernong
4pm
Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm St., Greensboro, NC
Event Details
5/10/26
Songwriters at Scuppernong
With duo The Raven & The Remedy (Leah Kaufman and Janet Buehler)
4pm
Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm St., Greensboro, NC
More Events
Thanks to the band!
We are so grateful to all the musicians -- our Carnival Ride staff! -- who joined us at the album pre-release show on Nov. 14, 2024.
Left to right: Danny Gotham (guitar) with Suki, Isabel, Barry, Bob Bedell (vocals), George Hindenach (drums/percussion), FJ Ventre (bass, vocals), Jack Gorham (piano), Brad Gray (vocals).
Video
Carnival Ride
This is the title track of our upcoming album and the first song we co-wrote. Thanks to the folks at WHUP-FM in Hillsborough, NC for having us on Pass the Hat in January 2024.
Watercolors
Performed at the Southeast Regional Folk Alliance, May 2023
About
Barry Gray's family band, Graymatter, is a Triad and Triangle, NC favorite, performing 60s and 70s covers in four-part harmony. Barry is also a member of the Wes Collins band (among other distinctions, Wes is a winner of Kerrville's prestigious Grassy Hills New Folk Competition for Emerging Songwriters). In 2018, Barry was awarded a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Songwriting, which led him to record his debut album, Footsteps.
Isabel Valls has been performing since 2010, when she began playing at area open mics. She has released two albums of her original songs under her former name, Taylor: Awake Again (2016) and Isabel Taylor (2019). Both albums secured the 15th spot on the Folk Radio chart.
Their solo albums were produced by award-winning musician Jon Shain and engineered by FJ Ventre at Good Luck Studio in Chapel Hill, NC.
Their upcoming release, Carnival Ride, is co-produced, recorded, and engineered by FJ Ventre.
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