After seventeen years of vocal training, five years of experimentation in rhythm guitar, and four years of original songwriting, solo artist Kate Brown has arrived on the rainy shores of Seattle. The refinement and spontaneity of her lively antics and warm comedic moments are found between the lingering notes of her "urban folk"style. In regards to this newcomer who performed in this summer's Mae West Fest, the Seattle Post Intelligencer raved about her "hard driving and robust vocal style ... blast[ing] pain away with explosive tunes and lyrics." The Seattle Times chimed in as she "cheerfully warm[ed] things up", and The Stranger carefully labeled her work as "catchy tunes, earnestly performed." With performance art training from New York's Marymount Manhattan College and Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts, Kate presents dramatic contrasts of mood and vivacity within each show, balancing the angst and bite of certain songs with the beauty and serenity of others. Her formal performance experience includes a series of commissioned appearances at private parties in Manhattan's Greenwich Village; a 250 seat sold out concert at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin; a leading role in the 1999 award winning Seattle Fringe Festival recording and musical production Rock Opera: The Fossil Record; leading roles in the musicals Nine and I Used to Dream in Spanish at Cornish College of the Arts; and live performances in the Seattle circuit which include the Wild Rose, the Pike Place Market, and the Rainbow Bar and Grill.

Photograph by David Perez
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