Artist

Kat is one of the most accomplished guitarists and singer/songwriters in the folk, Celtic and traditional music genres. Kat has released five CDs to date, three of which are available from Waterbug Music, one from Redwing Music, and the most recent - Speak - in August 2009 as an independent release. Also an actor, teacher and hammered dulcimer player, Kat has been a lead singer with The Otters and with Bohola, and recorded a duo CD with Kate MacLeod. She has played live and on recordings with David Bromberg, Bohola, the David Munnelly Band, Niamh Parsons, Jim Tullio, Tom Dundee, Dennis Cahill, Michael Smith, Brooks Williams, Andrew Calhoun, and many others. She has toured in Europe, Australia, Ireland, England, and Scotland as well as the U.S. After nearly 20 years in Chicago as a performing singer-songwriter and musical theater artist (including two seasons in Michael Smith's Snow Queen at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater), she returned to her home community of Vashon Island in 2008 to be close to her beloved father.