SATURDAY 4th September 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £10 adv. / £12 on the door
“One of the most beautiful singers ever. Heartbreaking.”—Devendra Banhart
“I consider myself her biggest fan."—Josephine Foster
Kath is a folk, country, and avant-garde legend and has been making records since the late 70s.
The daughter of world-renowned oboist Robert Bloom, Kath was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, where she trained as a cellist. However, Kath met avant-garde guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors in 1976 and teamed up with him for a series of now highly sought-after recordings of traditional blues songs and Bloom's fragile, beautiful originals. Some records were released in editions of as few as fifty, most no more than 300 copies, until the duo released their swansong Moonlight in 1984.
After a period of child-rearing, family life and daily financial struggle, Kath began to return to the studio in the 1990s. These new songs, recorded in friends' lounge rooms or cut-rate studios, reveal a mother-of-three songwriter as accomplished and affecting as any of her more acclaimed colleagues such as Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch or Hazel Dickens.
In the mid-nineties US director Richard Linklater stumbled across her music and used the song Come Here in Before Sunrise, but despite an initial flurry of interest, little came of the exposure. Kath's album Finally, released on Chapter Music in 2006, is the first record she has put out since 1984, aside from her own self-released CD-Rs and cassettes.
“I've never enjoyed sharing a bill with anyone as much as I have with Kath. She's wonderful and lights up the room wherever she goes.”— Mark Kozelek
“More soulful than Al Green”—Caveh Zahedi
"Kath's voice is urgent and yet calming - a call of reckoning”—Nat Hentoff
“May just be the purest, most natural heir to the literate confessional songwriting of Joni Mitchell's Blue”—Steven Rosen
“One of this country’s finest living songwriters.”—Andria Spring
“If you're after some real emotion from one of America's undiscovered greats then look no further.”—Boomkat
“Her unearthly, yet increasingly rugged, voice tackles a sentiment . . . in a waythat cuts away the cliché aspect and makes it honest. And then she’ll add to it a thought that takes it beyond that level, to feel like poetry, and then like revelation, like unbarring the secrets around us”—Dave Heaton
LINKS
http://www.myspace.com/kathbloomchapter
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