Hey NYC – I’ll see you this Saturday 5/19 where I’ll accompany Rooftop Films with live music for a film. Info HERE!
I am really looking forward to my tour supporting Patrick Watson band on tour, tell a friend!
06/01 – Chicago IL @ Lincoln Hall
06/02 – Minneapolis MN @ Cedar Cultural Centre
06/04 – Denver CO @ Hi Dive
06/07 – San Diego CA @ UCSD The Loft
06/08 – Los Angeles CA @ The Bootleg Theatre
06/09 – Felton CA @ Don Quixote’s
06/10 – San Francisco CA @ Great American Music Hall
06/12 – Portland OR @ Mission Theatre
06/13 – Seattle WA @ Columbia City Theatre
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YR NOT ALONE, my forth-coming record will be released early Fall 2012! Appeareances by Sufjan Stevens, Jack Petruzzelli, Brian McTear, Casey Foubert & C.J. Camerieri, with cover art by Alexandra Marvar, (the ever talented lady who also helps me keeps this website up to date:).
Still buzzing from my session this weekend in Philly at Weathervane Music with Brian McTear, Jon Low, & all the incredible people involved! I think I finally created & let a song dance as much as I do (this one is slow jam)! Bon voyage singer/songwriter Cat for a while perhaps… Can’t wait to share this new tune with you soon! Sexy gear, smooth soulful grooves, totally ready for Spring!
Hey Loves, I did not know what teams were playing in the Superbowl. Nor that Madonna was performing the half-time set when I took this dance favorite of mine from the 80s out of my back pocket and gave it my own balladry spin.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Im starting a set of cover songs based around the subject of guess what?… Love! Songs For My Love, will be released later this winter via my BANDCAMP PAGE. Sneak preview into what’s to expect later week from the E.P. of songs.
See you on the East Coast my friends in November, come on by! Tour w/ THE LOOM and others! TIX & INFO HERE
Nov 11 Chicago, IL @ Panchos
Nov 12 Madison, WI @ Univ of Wisconsin – Der Rathskeller w/ Memoryhouse
Nov 13 Cincinnati, OH @ Motr Pub
Nov 14 Indianapolis, IN @ The Melody Inn o
Nov 15 Columbus, OH @ Kafe Kerouac w/ The Black Swans
Nov 16 Charlottesville, VA @ Pink Warehouse (100 W. Jefferson St)
Nov 17 Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
Nov 18 Washington, DC @ Velvet Lounge
Nov 19 College Park, MD @ University of Maryland – WMUC
Nov 20 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
Dec 4th Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel – opening for War on Drugs
4-10-11 Bush Hall – London (UK) -
5-10-11 Cat Solo Show – at Betsy Trotwood – London (UK) TICKETS
6-10-11 Comet – Berlin (D)
7-10-11 Uebel & Gefährlich – Hamburg (D)
8-10-11 Pumpehuset – Copenhagen (DK)
9-10-11 Debaser – Stockholm (S)
10-10-11 Hendriksberg – Gothenburg (S)
11-10-11 Revolver – Oslo (N)
12-10-11 Perfect Sounds Forever – Bergen (N)
14-10-11 Klubi – Tampere (FI)
15-10-11 Dynamo – Turku (FI)
16-10-11 Kuudes Linja – Helsinki (FI)
* Opening for Gardens and Villa(git with this band! you can’t understand how gooood they are, saw them kill it at Glasslands in Brooklyn recently!)
30-10-11 Groningen, Holland- Vera
31-10-11 Brussels, Belgium- AB Club
1-11-11 Nijmegen, Holland- Merleijn
It’s all done and coming sooooon! Recorded at the Poconos studios with co-production from Jack Petruzzelli, and additional musical play from Sufjan Stevens, Casey Foubert, CJ Camereri, & Brian McTear… Mixed by Brian McTear at Minor Street in Philly. So excited to share it with you. Above is the album artwork by the lovely and talented Alexandra Marvar!
hey y’all ~ just a quick note from down under. super grateful to be on the Sufjan Stevens Space Tour Down Under in AU / NZ. We got to rock the Sydney Opera House, and hit 7 other cities. People are slightly confused at the beginning of our show, maxed out with an 11 piece band, and the gorgeous visuals of Deborah Johnson – but then they seem to turn and wish for us never to get back on our spaceship and fly away! Everyone is so chill here, and there are clearly “no worries”, something for my NYC Annie Hall mind easily forgets – hopefully it will have rubbed off on me and i will take their sense of ease and fullness home!
First stop on SVE tour down South was a visit to NPR studios to do a Tiny Desk Concert. All the peoples there were so nice and sweet, and we did our best to sing sweet harmonies in the corner office in front of a bookcase;). Thankfully I stayed away from some of the more enticing children’s percussive toys! Later, Ben, Doug, Sharon and I played a great show with Marissa Nadler @ DC9 before heading South for more trouble!
hey peops, an electro collabo i did with “Dive Index” had featured tune “Burn Their Bodies” on KCRW today. cool. also did a duet with Mark Gardener, from Ride, and Joseph Arthur on the record.
As if Truck America wasn’t enough, I also got to do a Takeaway show with the amazingly talented guys from Foglight Films amongst the trees of the Catskills. Thanx Daniel, Adam, Ron, & Paul from Foglight!
Vincent Moon came over my house with Sharon Van Etten and this is what happened when got to stripping down her lovely song, “For You”. By the way, if yr hiding under a rock and are not on board with the gorgeous SVE, jump on before the ship goes people!
Hello Sunday Folks ~ Just gettin round to posting this video of a recording I did with my friend Sharon Van Etten. She and her music are pure beauty. What fun she, me & Kish had at Weathervane! Thanx to Brian and Greg in Philly. xo
en route to berlin baby! best thing i heard anyone say in UK: (insert accent & image of sweet ole medieval bookseller lady from countryside)… “i tried to paint the walls lily white but they still look bloody green. ah, it’s all still jolly good”.
For those of you who aren’t dead yet from Truck, looks like I’m sticking around a few more days in Oxfordshire since I’ve got the plague too much to go to Paris. I’ll honker down with the other plagued:) Music with Dusty & the Dreaming Spires, myself, and other special guests, tomorrow nite at the Rusty!!
Amazing music festival i played past weekend, run by the Bennett Family on a beautiful farm in Oxfordshire, UK. With a crowd of 6,000, it is a favorite for it’s vibe, all about the music and the people, not a sign of corporate sponsorship in sight. Discovered so much new music, favs being Wild Beasts, 6 Day Riot, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Yacht, Pulled Apart By Horses, KTB, Jason Sebastion Russo, The Joy Formidable…kudos to the Truck bookers for concentrating on a lot of up and coming music!!
Check out Bethan Elfan’s amazing Radio 1 Live Coverage of TRUCK. So floored that radio here is playing such exciting groundbreaking music! Live stream music & interviews from Stornoway, Dusty & the Dreaming Spires, Fredrick Stanley Star, Them Squirrels and Sweet Baboo, some of my other festival favs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bethanelfyn/
what a shocking transformation, from rolling fields to hundreds of tents, stages, folks dancing, some in costumes, rad adorable people, rock n’ roll dj, pre-show festivities, white lights, good vibrations… feel like a kid on christmas, can’t go to sleep, can’t wait to wake up and play TRUCK!
played a really rad gig in Reading tonite at the Oakford Social Club! Nick Horton promoted, such a sweet guy… why is everyone so nice in these parts? opened for a great coming up English band called Stornaway, check em out, gggreat stuff!!! now a bit of the brown and a bath off to bed, long weekend, and trying to avoid the plague:)
In further news today I delivered village mail on bicycle for TRUCK< avoided the swine flu quarantine house, interviewed a cow about it’s excitement to see Supergrass at the Festival, frolicked in the heathers, wrote tunes, painted signs, and ate at another nicely enforced big family/friend dinner by Mamma Bennett.
im staying with the outstanding Bennett family, who run Truckfest, which makes me very lucky! grandfather Bennett was a part of the Inklings, a writers group including C.S. Lewis, J.R. Tolkien, who sat in a pub, the Eagle and the Child, and worked through manuscripts. just where does one begin in a house with shelves full of original C.S. Lewis, Tolkein, bound Milton, Keats, Browning, many treasure authors i don’t know, Faery Tales and unending histories…? feels like magic, wish i could be on house arrest here for a while just to make a small dent.not to mention how nice it is to wait for the train to pass, the gate to lift, walk the narrow cobble stone path to the North Star in the royal blue nite and have some passing people smile and say, “Evening.”
last nite, cider from a barrell at the ole north star pub. morning cobblestone walk rolling greens, medieval church, horses, chicks, ducklings, garden… everyone’s here working away in Steventon, painting signs, putting up fences and tents on the farm, planning in the office, getting ready for Truck 12 music festival this weekend! amazing people workin together, a beautiful chaos & sweetness in Oxfordshire…
photos by the lovely Alex Marvar (who just happens to be directing a golf cart around Truck below:)
can’t think of a better landing into England, tho i do feel like the energizer bunny… ~ 8:30 pm, male stewardess informs drinks are complimentary -> arrive 7:30 am London -> bus to Oxford, hello nap & tea, bus back to London -> tube to Brixton -> meet up with the gang at the Windmill, play to spirited crowd. -> sit in sing with Dusty and Danny and the Champs sets -> bus back to Oxford -> 4am chips n’ mayo on pita ~ sleep?
