“Cleverly-worded pop confections thatswiftly live up to the pair’s billing”

Mike Joyce, The Washington Post

Introducing The Dreamsicles - the Texas based folk/pop duo featuring Tom Prasada-Rao and Cary Cooper. Two voices and a guitar, intricate harmonies with a little cheerleading thrown in, singing love songs for grown ups. They've been touring together for two years, and have just finished their second CD.

Both Tom and Cary are Kerrville New Folk Competition Winners - accomplished songwriters in their own right. They draw on their experience in classical violin, musical theater, raising kids, and living in the third world to create songs which navigate the territory between Everything But The Girl and Leonard Cohen, Lucy Kaplansky and Krishna Das.

"A hot new CD from The Dreamsicles! More acoustic than their first release,

"Luv Songs For Grown Ups" captures theirspirit and style perfectly. A winner!"

Ron Olesko, WFDU Fordham University

Tom Prasada-Rao and Cary Cooper fell in love in the spring of 2002. They started writing songs together almost immediately, songs that describe the roller coaster ride of finding love again later in life. They set out to create something different, not for 13 year olds with allowance money, but for parents with mortgages and divorces. Soon their songs started developing a certain motif; celebrating the experience, the fear, the sexuality, and the longing of those who have actually been around the block.

The Dreamsicles second album Luv Songs For Grown Ups picks up where their self-titled debut left off. Like their live shows, it's honest, vulnerable, and sassy. They aren't afraid to laugh at themselves or to wear their hearts on their sleeves, and they open the door for their audiences to do the same. In it's first month on folk radio, "Luv Songs" charted 4th in the Top Album category and The Dreamsicles charted 8th as Top Artists.They've been nominated for three Just Plain Folks awards including Contemporary Album of the Year.

“Stealing the show was the Dreamsicles' Cary Cooper whose duets with Tom Prasada-Rao were some of the

best I've ever heard. It's as if their voices were destined to meet, two people connecting soul to soul."

Bryn Benson, On The Map Concerts

THe DreamsICLesCary Cooper | Tom Prasada-rao

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Cary Cooper ph. 214.562.2258The summer of 2004 began with Cary Cooper winning the New Folk Competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Since then she's been a finalist in the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival's Emerging Artist Showcase, and Mountain Stage's NewSong contest. She received three solo nominations in the Just Plain Folk Awards including Female Singer-Songwriter Album of the Year. She has two solo albums to her credit, Gypsy Train and her latest release, Yellow.

Cary Cooper's songs look at the world from a woman's point of view, as a mother, a lover, and a woman who has found strength in herself after looking everywhere else. She taught dance for the United Spirit Association (a southern California dance team that also included Paula Abdul and Teri Hatcher), and she taught ESL to elementary school students in Dallas. Cary was born and raised in Texas, and has two young daughters. They are currently her favorite day job.

SELECT VENUE LIST

Ottowa Folk FestivalMountain Stage Newsong FestivalFalcon Ridge Folk FestivalThe Boston Folk FestivalThe Takoma Park Folk Festival, MDThe Kerrville Folk Festival, TXSisters Folk Festival, Bend ORThe Woody Guthrie Festival, Okemah OKThe Wildflower Festival, Richardson TXOctoberFolk, The Brantford Folk Festival, CanadaWinter Park Folk Festival, COJammin Java, Vienna VALittle Lake Hill House Concerts, Raleigh NC333 Coffeehouse, Annapolis MDSchuba’s, Chicago ILThe Listening Room, Hastings NESwallow Hill, Denver CO

THe DreamsICLesTom Prasada-rao ph. 512.699.7370In 1993 Tom Prasada-Rao won the Kerrville New Folk Competition and in 1998 he was voted most wanted at Falcon Ridge. He's released five solo albums and sold over 25,000 copies. He tours solo, with The Dreamsicles, and occasionally with the Sherpas (with Tom Kimmel and Michael Lille). He produces albums, most recently for Rachel Bissex. Tom Prasada-Rao teaches songwriting at the University of Virginia, as well as guitar clinics for Breedlove Guitars and Elixir Strings.

Tom Prasada-Rao’s songs mine the common ground between spirituality and rhythm & blues, folk music and world music. Tom was born in Ethiopia of Indian parents and raised in Washington DC, where he would later win over a dozen Wammies. He went to school in the US, England, and India, and sometimes he still misses his old day job driving a truck.

Woodsongs Radio Hour, Lexington KY(syndicated internationally on over 400 stations)The Grey Eagle, Asheville NCThe Evening Star, Sautee-Nacoochee GA(syndicated on Georgia Public Radio)Godfrey Daniels, Bethlehem PACaffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NYWooden Concerts, Kalispell MTThe Beanery, Billings MTThe Wild Basin, Austin TXFox Run House Concerts, Sudbury MAThe Flint Folk Music Society, Flint MIMain Street Cafe, Homestead FLAnderson Fair, Houston TXUncle Calvin’s Coffeehouse, Dallas TX

For Booking: dream@thedreamsicles.com, 214-403-5553For more information including a downloadable press kit please visit www.thedreamsicles.com

6850 North Shiloh Road, Box K-250, Garland, TX 75044www.thedreamsicles.com, dream@thedreamsicles.com