Deidre McCalla at Ginkgo Coffeehouse

Deidre McCalla’s powerful songwriting reveals an unyieldingly honest perspective expressed with a lyric touch that fearlessly celebrates the power and diversity of the human spirit. A dreadlocked singer/songwriter for almost five decades, Deidre McCalla, Black woman, mother, lesbian, feminist, is riding high on her latest release Endless Grace. Endless Grace dominated the June 2022 Folk Radio Charts as the #1 Album with the #1and #3 songs and finished for the year as the #13 Top Album. PopMatters, Rhythms Magazine, and the Folk Alley Listener Favorites Poll ranked Endless Grace among the 10 Best Folk albums for 2022, and in 2023 Deidre’s song Shoulder To The Wheel won the 19th Annual International Acoustic Music Award for Best Folk/Americana/Roots song.