The Maybelles are a trio of talented young women. The band is comprised of Jan Bell, guitar; Melissa Carper, bass and Katy Rose Cox, violin. The band features classic and self-written songs with sweet sibling old-time harmony vocals and a dynamic stringband sound.

The Maybelles began when itinerant Nebraskan Melissa Carper met Yorkshire lass Jan Bell during the Ozark Folk Festival. They set up on a bench by the hotel to swap songs and sing together on upright bass and guitar. Folkies were immediately drawn to their natural vocal harmony, and the old country songs. Before long they hit the road, on the first of many festival adventures. Summer took them up to Jan's adopted hometown New York City, for the Brooklyn Bridge Sculpture Music Festival (BWAC), where they teamed up with Texas tornado fiddle player Katy Rose Cox.

We're pleased to host them here before they head for a tour England this summer!

"Beautiful, Celtic, Appalachian-tinged folk"
– Village Voice

"Bell (and The Maybelles) music isn't strictly bluegrass, but the reworking of old-time country and jug-band blues is remarkably nuanced.
It embodies the wide-open spirit of what has become an antic, hybrid genre"
–Edd Hurt, Nashville Scene - IBMA Feature

"They've got it all. Good writing.
Good voices. Good sound."
–Mike Shirkey, KUAF 'The Pickin' Post Host'
- Goodfolk Concert Producer, AR