Maeve is made up of three singer-songwriters who combine their talents to present that serendipitous mix of folk, acoustic rock, and jazz. The North Shore-based trio has performed together since they met on the road a few years ago. Rollyn Zoubeck, Courtney Reid, and Rachel Taylor play their music throughout the East Coast in colleges, clubs, coffeehouses and the subways of Boston.
Each of these performers comes to the band with her own personality and musical history. Rollyn Zoubeck was part of the acoustic duo Zoubeck and Bryant. They participated in the Spring Forward 2000 tour after releasing their second album, “Hinge.” Rollyn’s lead vocals have been described as “that rare form of world-class artistry that must be heard.” She has a solo project entitled “So It Goes” that was produced by Brooks Williams, a major talent on the acoustic music scene. Courtney Reid moved to Massachusetts to attend Gordon College and founded her own band, Scarlet Haven. That band released two CDs and was a finalist in the Lilith Fair band competition in 2000. Courtney then ventured out on her own before joining Maeve. Her style is distinctive. One critic says her sound is like “U2 with Sade vocals.” Rachel Taylor brings a jazz influence to Maeve. She currently attends Berklee School of Music and performs weekly in a jazz band in the Boston area. In addition, she is a regular back-up singer for the legendary Nico and Tom Conlon.
Chris O’Brien is a regular in the acoustic scene in Boston and Cambridge and debuted his first collection of songs last year at the sold-out Club Passim’s “New Faces” concert. A reviewer of that show has this to say of Chris: “He picks up where Richard Thompson, John Gorka, and Martin Sexton leave off; a young writer with his eyes on a gentle, melodic horizon and matter of the soul.” O’Brien picked up the guitar after attending a Shawn Colvin and Indigo Girls show at age 12. Dar Williams is a family friend who took him under her wing and taught him to play the chords from Shawn Colvin’s songbook for “Steady On.” Chris hosts the acoustic showcase at “The All Asia Cafe” in Central Square which features new and talented musicians from all over the metropolitan Boston area.
Meeting Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Bill Morrissey at Club Passim proved to be a pivotal moment in Karaugh Brown’s life. Shortly thereafter she got to open for Morrissey, who was so impressed that he offered to produce Karaugh’s first full-length album. Her career was off to an extraordinary start as she was then nominated for a Boston Music Award and invited to showcase on the main stage at the 14th Annual Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. Her CD “One Round Orange” was released in 2002, and one of her songs is part of the “Respond II” compilation CD, which includes songs by Suzanne Vega, Joan Baez, Ani Difranco, and the Indigo Girls. In fact, the Boston Globe says of Karaugh: “She will remind some of the young Suzanne Vega with her stark melodicism, literary sense, and brooding persona."
Charlie Verge’s path to the Me&Thee is perhaps the most unusual. By day, Charlie is a psychotherapist. He works primarily in family therapy and has served as a lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a dynamic teacher and innovator and specializes in offering workshops, retreats and supervision groups in which he integrates spirituality and psychotherapy. Verge discovered along the way that he was able to tap into his spiritual side by making music. His perspective on the world is informed by all the kinds of people and all the kinds of relationships that he encounters professionally. This has enabled him to write songs that speak to everyone’s heart and soul. Verge’s devotion to his guitar playing and songwriting has gained him a big following in the Boston area and the Me&Thee is thrilled to have him grace our stage.