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Newcomer has worked with many notable artists throughout her career. She toured with Alison Krauss and Union Station in Europe and the U.S. and recorded the title track of her 2002 The Gathering of Spirits album with Krauss. Krauss went on to introduce Nickel Creek to Newcomer’s song “I Should’ve Known Better”, which the band recorded on their Grammy-winning, gold-selling album This Side (produced by Krauss).

In 2007, Newcomer recorded a live concert DVD with folk legends Holly Near and Bernice Johnson Reagon, was commissioned to write the YMCA national theme song, composed music for the Indiana Repertory Theater’s production of Bad Dates, and collaborated with author Scott Russell Sanders and fellow songwriters Krista Detor, Tim Grimm, Tom Roznowski and Michael White in the album and theatrical production entitled Wilderness Plots.

Newcomer appears to have no performance and touring boundaries, as she seamlessly moves from performing in concert halls, acoustic clubs, churches, synagogues and convents; to conducting workshops on vocation, arts, creative writing and progressive faith at colleges, universities, seminaries and high schools; to writing and performing in theatrical productions; to volunteering for environmental and social justice fundraisers.

In fact, within a couple of months recently, she actually found herself performing and speaking with at-risk juveniles inside of an Ohio courtroom (with judge, parole officer and parents present) and performing and conducting a workshop inside of an Indiana women’s penitentiary—experiences that added a bit of perspective to her otherwise full concert schedule. Newcomer quips, “My life and work were definitely not described on Jr. High School Career Day.”

Newcomer’s music has been praised in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Acoustic Guitar, Performing Songwriter, Paste Magazine and several other outlets. In the words of acclaimed writer Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible, “Carrie Newcomer is much more than a musician. She’s a poet, storyteller, snake charmer, good neighbor, friend and lover, minister of the wide-eyed gospel of hope and grace.” When Carrie is not in the midst of traveling, she spends her time with her husband and two dogs at her home in the woods near Bloomington, Indiana.