Deidre McCalla

Deidre McCalla - Black woman, mother, lesbian, feminist - has long been in the forefront of Black musicians redefining the understanding of how Black folk do folk. Deidre is riding high on her current release Endless Grace which dominated the June 2022 Folk Radio Charts as the #1 Album with the #1 Song - "Shoulder To The Wheel" and the #3 Song - "I Do Not Walk This Path Alone," and finished for the year as the #13  Top Album. PopMatters, Rhythms Magazine, and the Folk Alley Listener Favorite’s Poll ranked Endless Grace among the Ten Best Folk albums for 2022. In 2023 Deidre’s song "Shoulder To The Wheel" won the 19th Annual International Acoustic Music Award for Best Folk/Americana/Roots song making Deidre the first woman to ever win that category.

Deidre McCalla's first Olivia Records album Don’t Doubt It is included in the LGBT Collection at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History and listed by Ms Magazine as one of 25 Classic Women’s Music Albums.