Wookalily

Wookalily are quirky – in a good way. Folk-gothic troubadour tales, old-time mountain music, glorious melodic hooks and a drum kit which guarantees bluegrass purists cover their ears. The hillbilly police’s loss is everyone else’s gain. Four women (Adele, Sharon, Lindsay, Lou): too girly to be a beat group, too funky to be a folk group, too good to miss.

Wookalily released their debut EP Black Magic Doll in 2011. Their song ‘Diamonds And Gold’ gained them a showcase at the prestigious IBMA World of Bluegrass Festival in Nashville in 2012. They also recorded for Country Music Hall-Of-Famer Dixie Hall’s Pickin’ Like A Girl compilation in 2013 – the only non-American act to do so. Their own debut album All The Waiting While was released in November 2014. It’s rumbling along nicely with local airplay and humbling acclaim from fellow musicians worldwide. Wookalily are a cult, but they’d like to be popular!

Lyndsay Crothers is a vocalist combining Sandy Denny soul and Janis Joplin power; Adele Ingram’s songs are redolent of Arlo Guthrie and The Roches in their gentle melange of whimsy, profundity and melodies which linger in the mind; Sharon Morgan plays lead guitar, banjo, bass and doesn’t say much. Cardiff Lou Potter, on drums, tells jokes and rocks (like a girl). Which suits Wookalily just fine.