Curly (aka Karen Schleifer) is a true multi-hyphenate artist who started her performance career on Broadway in the original production of Annie. After learning to play guitar and becoming a songwriter (releasing her first album in 2003 in CA) she moved back home to the east coast and started jamming regularly on St. Marks Place in NYC. It was then that Shotgun Curly was born - a band with rotating members playing Curly originals, rock, blues and everything in between. Curly has played such notable venues as Rockwood Music Hall, The Bitter End, Parkside Lounge, Pianos, Kenny’s Castaways, Funkadelic Studios, Tribeca Grill, The Transparent Clinch Gallery, The Asbury Hotel, The Asbury Ocean Club, The Break, Seahorse Asbury Park, Heights 27, Jacks By The Tracks, Triumph Brewery, Driftwood Tiki Bar — and a whole bunch of other places in NYC , down the shore and across the country.
