SORCHa & her band

Sorcha’s voice embodies blues, jazz, country-blues, and soul influences — elevated by a strong rhythm section, inventive instrumentalists, and lush harmonies. Her band satisfies indie-folk-pop and soul-stirring jazz cravings. Savor the sounds with all your senses.

Her former ensemble “Sorcha & The Clearing” graced historic stages such as Stone Mountain Arts Center (Brownfield, ME) and The State Theater (Portland, ME - with The Fogcutters Contemporary Big Band) and were featured on the Cold River Radio Show (Conway, NH).

TRIO

From stirring indie-folk-pop originals to re-imagined covers spanning the 1920s to the 2000s, these three celebrated Maine songwriters and multi-instrumentalists deliver rich vocal harmonies, fresh arrangements, and bluesy grooves —
fueled by guitar, upright bass, percussion, and a touch of vintage charm.
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sorcha and emilia | DUO

What began as two seasoned songwriters showing up for weekly creative check-ins evolved into a fresh musical collaboration. Emilia Dahlin and Sorcha Cribben-Merrill join their jazz vocal harmonies with the poetry of folk music, while honoring vintage rhythms and their stylistic origins. Their songs unveil mesmerizing tales, charming vignettes, and raw bluesy grooves as they swap guitars, accordion, drums, and vocal improvisations. back to top >

The Letters | duo

During the cold Maine winter of 2009, jazz-infused harmonies met bluegrass roots in Jo’s small kitchen. Jo Sorrell and Sorcha Cribben-Merrill hit the road with spot-on vocal harmonies and groove driven, genre bending arrangements of original songs and select covers. Weilding acoustic guitar and clawhammer banjo, Sorcha “unveils a suite of musical styles that shows a wide-ranging songwriting ability…witty verses with smart rhymes” (Sam Pfeifle, Portland Pheonix) while Jo rolls her classical cello background into funky bluegrass chops a-la Crooked Still and Ben Sollee. back to top >

THE LETTERS + KAFARI | TRIO

This unique, fine-tuned trio combines Jo and Sorcha’s razor sharp vocal harmonies and folk-blues-leaning songs with pianist/electronic musician Kafari's intricate rhythm bones percussion. They have opened for celebrated Hatian-American cellist, multi-instrumentalist, and singer Leyla McCalla (formerly of the Grammy-award winning Caroline Chocolate Drops) at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine and captured hearts at house concerts. back to top >

CONNOR GARVEY BAND

Connor Garvey is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Portland, Maine — including from Kerrville New Folk, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, SolarFest, Wildflower Art and Music Festival songwriting competitions, Connor has made a name for himself as a solo artist but his 2022 release, Another End of The Year, highlights the band that has been the backbone of Connor's albums since 2011 and closest musical collaborators. back to top >