"Settle Down" is the first solo album from Kari Sickenberger, a singer and songwriter from Asheville, NC. She and singing partner, Laurelyn Dossett founded the band Polecat Creek and they have made three records together with world class banjo player Riley Baugus.  Kari has also toured with and sung on recordings by Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz. She teams up with Vollie McKenzie in Asheville in the band, The Western Wildcats, a honky tonk and swing sextet.  Last year Kari began a new musical project called the Kari Sickenberger Band, consisting of fiddler, Natalya Weinstein and singer, songwriter and mulit-instrumentalist, John Miller, both formerly of the band, Lo-Fi Breakdown.  Kari also regularly teaches private and public singing and harmony workshops.