"Eclectic but consistently entertaining and sizzling with intensity as only great
acoustic music can deliver, with an urgency and intimacy that I love."
- Michelle Shocked, Performing Singer-Songwriter

Wild Carrot
Pam Temple and Spencer Funk are Wild Carrot. This Cincinnati-based, award-winning group has what it takes to please all types of folk music fans. Rooted in traditional American music, their repertoire branches in diverse directions: from original tunes to swing, blues and traditional songs, using guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, concertina and vocals. In quartet with their Roots Band (Brenda Wolfersberger and Brandt Smith), they expand to four vocals and add bass, banjo and Dobro.

Wild Carrot's entertaining and moving performances have something for everyone. Their performances have often been described as "honest, soothing, uplifting and fun all at the same time", moving an audience from laughter to tears and back again in a way that makes the listener feel like they're in a conversation with old friends. All of this adds up to a performance that's been described as "seamless", "life-sized complex, subtle and powerful" and "a joy."

News
New Website!

New CD - More Great Reviews!

Sunday April 11th, 2010

New Website!

Yay!  Finally, a new web site.  This means we'll be able to update it a little easier by ourselves (so, we'll see if that means we actually do it more often...).  Keep checking back for updates and check out the social networking sites too!

New CD - More Great Reviews!

In the meantime, take a listen to our new album, "Crowd Around the Mic."  We're so excited it continues to get great reviews like this one:

"The intimacy of the performance translates to the disk with all the charm that characterizes their shows, and their music in general."

- RA, Vintage Guitar Magazine

Visit our Listen & Buy page.

"You can't just have a taste of Wild Carrot. Slowly savor their contemporary folk
rooted in tradition and know you'll be coming back again and again."
- Jamie Anderson, Sing Out!

"...simultaneously lovely, clever, and swingy..."
- Rob Weir, Off Center Reviews

"We knew we'd hear great music, but you all did a great SHOW!"
- Audience Member

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Two-Time Cultural Ambassadors with the US State Department

We are honored to have been chosen twice to tour Chile as "Folk Music Ambassadors". It is a beautiful country and we were lucky to see more of it than most Chileans do as we toured up and down the coast playing festivals, concerts and master classes. Here are a few shots. Our hearts go out to our hosts and friends rebuilding after 2010's devastating earthquake.

"Zanahoria Silvestre" on the stage!

In front of the postcard-perfect volcano in Villa Rica, Chile during our tour.

Spencer on a typical "street" in Valparaiso, Chile, our favorite place in Chile.  It's an artists' town, built on seven steep hills above a bay.  When we win the lottery, we're gonna move here.

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Tune into Pam's radio show on WNKU 89.7 Monday through Thursday 8-10 PM and Sundays from 10 AM-1 PM for The Front Porch.

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