claire holley has performed with mary chapin carpenter, kate campbell, and caroline herring, and has composed music for "the fence", an independent film which received the 2008 ucla directors spotlight award. mary chapin carpenter has said that holley has an angelic style of writing. two of her songs have appeared in the abc tv show men in trees and she wrote the original music for the documentary "looking for lurch" in 2008. holley was also a member of musette (formerly "song sirens"), a group of female singer-songwriters that performed every so often in sierra madre, a little town in the mountains just north of los angeles.