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 (her first album Only The Ocean was released in 2003 in Laguna Beach, CA) she moved back home and started jamming regularly on St. Marks Place in NYC. It was then that she met her musical brother Steve Gregoire and the idea of Shotgun Curly was born - a band with rotating members playing Curly originals, rock, blues and everything in between.
They have 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 and a whole bunch of other places in NYC and the Jersey Shore.
