Aaron & Caroline

Two extraordinary voices on our Post Terrace: Aaron English from Nashville, Tennessee, blends cinematic pop melodies with a global flair, while Caroline Cotter opens hearts with her warm voice and heartfelt lyrics. A musical journey full of soul, poetry, and humanity—moving, profound, and unforgettable.

Aaron English

In an episode of the Fox TV series “Bones,” a character compiled a list of the “five best breakup songs” and gave it to a colleague who was going through a heartbreak. The compilation included songs by alternative pop stars like Sia, Mazzy Star, José González, Antony and the Johnsons … and an unknown artist named Aaron English.

The soulful songs of Nashville-based singer-songwriter and pianist Aaron English are emotional, sophisticated, cinematic … and full of echoes of his travels through Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. His nine albums and EPs have drawn comparisons to Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, James Blunt, David Gray, Sting, and Robert Plant.

His contribution to “Bones” is just one of English’s remarkable achievements, which also include a Top 5 radio hit in Italy, a Top 20 radio hit in the U.S., two hits in Pakistan, and being named “Artist to Watch” by Keyboard Magazine. His music has been featured on CBS, NBC, Bravo, and TBS, on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and in commercials for Google, Chevrolet, Motorola, Patagonia, Kaiser Permanente, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Kraft Foods. In 2015, Aaron spent two months in East Africa, where he founded the International Youth Music Project, a charity that supports music programs for young people in orphanages, refugee camps, and HIV/AIDS+ community centers. In 2023, Aaron traveled to Karachi, Pakistan, where he performed concerts and wrote music in collaboration with Pakistani artists. The highlight of the trip was the climate change anthem “Sound the Alarm.”

Aaron divides his time between touring the U.S. and Europe, his charitable work in Africa, livestream concerts on StageIt.com, and remote collaborations with musicians from around the world, producing songs and videos with them.

Press

“A unique and brilliantly creative songwriter … Aaron English [has] traveled the highways and byways of the world, absorbing, developing, and weaving together everything he has encountered on his journey.” Dancing About Architecture

“A talented new artist in the same league as other stylistically sophisticated singer-songwriters like Peter Gabriel, Joseph Arthur, and Perry Blake … powerful lyrics, eloquence, and beautiful, sublime melodies that go much deeper than simple pop songs.”« Progression Magazine

»One of the most talented pianists I’ve ever met, and one of America’s best songwriters... English could prove to be the most relevant songwriter of the year. A pure contemplative genius.” Ryan’s Smashing Life / Outlaw Roadshow

https://www.aaronenglish.com/

Caroline Cotter

Caroline Cotter’s sun-drenched songs celebrate the countless facets of the human experience. With her honey-sweet voice and disarmingly honest lyrics, Cotter sings about connection, nostalgia, gratitude, loss, and wanderlust. Lyrics like “Find me somewhere out on the road / Take me into your heart and into your home” make perfect sense for a touring artist who has played over 1,000 shows in 46 states and 18 countries. She has performed in churches, art galleries, barns, yoga studios, punk bars, Parisian living rooms, and even on a schooner off the coast of Maine. Wherever she goes, her songs stir emotions and offer new insights—a remedy for our collective longing.

Cotter grew up in Rhode Island, playing piano and listening to records by the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Carpenters, and Bob Dylan. She spent her early twenties in Spain, Thailand, and India, where she studied yoga and meditation, slept on train station floors, washed her clothes in the sink, and observed the countless ways people live. As she hiked the Camino de Santiago through northern Spain, she felt “wildly alive. I woke up with the sun in the east and hiked west every day. I felt free and yet full of purpose”—a feeling she recognized and regained as a touring musician.

She ceaselessly questions existence and weaves her worries, hopes, and joys into her songs. Cotter has released three albums: Dreaming as I Do (2015), Home on the River (2018), and Gently as I Go (2023). Under the Radar magazine describes her music as “a lasting sense of warmth and comfort that reminds us to savor every moment to the fullest.”

Cotter has performed at the Freshgrass Festival (North Adams, MA), Rocky Mountain Folk Fest (Lyons, CO), Ossipee Music Festival (Ossipee, NH), Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (Hillsdale, NY), Rockwood Music Hall (New York, NY), Isis Music Hall (Asheville, NC), The Alberta Rose Theatre (Portland, OR), Swallow Hill (Denver, CO), and many others. She won the Maine Songwriters Association Contest and was a finalist in the songwriting competitions at Freshgrass and the Rocky Mountain Folk Fest. When she’s not traveling the country, Cotter lives on the coast of Maine, USA.

https://www.carolinecotter.com/