No Fuss And Feathers Roadshow is a four-part mix of great friends, sweet harmonies, bouncy rhythms and straight-up fun. The folk quartet is in concert at 8 p.m. May 8, Godfrey Daniels, 7 E. Fourth St., Bethlehem.

The group is: Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver, Catherine Miles and Jay Mafale. Fans may be familiar with Miles and Mafale as folk duo The YaYas.

Individually, each of the four is acclaimed and award-winning singer-songwriters on the folk scene.

Carolann Solebello is well-known to fans as a founding member of the female trio Red Molly. She toured and recorded with the group for six years before returning to solo performing in 2010.

Solebello explains in a phone interview the genesis of No Fuss And Feathers, a group borne out of a larger social gathering of friends getting together monthly to play music in a laid-back environment.

"It came together as sort of an outgrowth of friendship and in a very organic way," Solebello says. "Karyn and Catherine and I, the women in the group, are all involved with a social group in New York City called Chicks With Dips."

"[It's] a whole gaggle of women songwriters in New York. We hang out as a social group and support group as friends. We've been meeting together for more than a decade now."

The "Chicks" hang out, drink some wine, swap stories, sing songs and share the bonds of female friendship and, of course, there's dip.

"We have actually a very famous dip recipe. It's an artichoke spinach dip that's just all the rage," she says.

The group meets approximately once a month. They were having such fun they discussed putting on a live performance.

"We didn't really perform together but we put together a tribute show to Joni Mitchell, specifically to her classic album 'Blue' that was turning 40 years old in 2011. We put together this tribute show that was intended to be a one-night benefit for a coffeehouse in Manhattan and it turned out to be a two and a half year touring project for the Chicks With Dips, including myself and Karyn Oliver and Catherine Miles," she explains.

"When that all started to come to a close, Karyn and Catherine and I had been collaborating a lot during the tour of the Joni Mitchell 'Blue' show. We decided we didn't want to stop playing together."

Mile's husband Jay Mafale was also part of the 'Blue' tour. He backed up the group on guitar, ran the soundboard, emceed the performances and supported the women and their tour anywhere he was needed.

"It was kind of a natural outgrowth. No Fuss And Feathers was just kind of a little branch of the Chicks With Dip, which is kind of why we included feathers in the name. We wanted to give a little nod to the Chicks that had birthed this new collaboration for us," she quips.

"In the almost two years the No Fuss And Feathers has been together, we kind of turned out to be a band. We didn't expect it to be that way."

No Fuss And Feathers' next project includes heading into the studio to record an album, which Solebello anticipates should be available sometime this summer.

According to Solebello, the audience at Godfreys can expect to hear lots of good music and harmonies. No Fuss And Feathers interacts with the audience and makes them feel they are a part of the show.

"We are serious about the music, but we are also serious about having a really good time while we are doing it," she says,

"Karyn and Catherine and I are harmony junkies," says Solebello. "We love to sing together and we are fortunate that we are able to blend really well. They [the audience] can expect some good rhythms from Jay on his box drums and other things and they can expect a lot of hilarity. We are friends. We do love to crack each other up and the four of us have a theater background, so they can expect a really good time.

"We're really looking forward to it because I love the intimacy of Godfreys. I love the way things sound at Godfreys. It makes it comfortable for us. We started out as just hanging out in each other's living room playing. Godfreys is like an extension of that which is a wonderful thing.

"The most important thing to us is that people know that they are going to have a really good time when they come to a No Fuss And Feathers Roadshow performance. They will leave with a smile on their face."