Kat Bula
“Smart, sassy, sensitive… a rare depth and range in an otherwise endless sea of singer/songwriters.” — Cascadia Weekly
“Without reservation, Conversations Over Breakfast is one of the best albums I have heard this year.” —What’s Up! Magazine If you’ve only seen Kat Bula shredding on fiddle and vocal harmonies behind other artists, you may not realize she’s also a serious songwriter in her own right. With an irreverent respect for tradition, a poet’s aversion to non-load-bearing lyrics, a fearless imagination and an unapologetically older-millennial sensibility, Kat Bula brings a singular voice to contemporary bluegrass and Americana. As a side player/band member, Bula has toured extensively with bands ranging from hardline traditional bluegrass and Western swing, to indie rock and metal. Along the way she’s found opportunities to work with bluegrass legends such as Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick, Molly Tuttle, and Missy Raines; cult-folk icon Jason Webley, Celtic-pop outfit The Clumsy Lovers, and math-rock group Rooftops, to name a few. When We Get To Shore, her collaboration with Coty Hogue and Aaron Guest, reached #1 on the FOLK-DJ charts and received airplay on BBC and Sirius XM. She was also a co-writing member of the pirate-themed folk punk humor band Pirates R Us, which reached College Music Journal’s Top 100 and was featured on the legendary Dr. Demento comedy radio show. A devoted fiddle teacher, Kat specializes in teaching improvisation and collaboration skills to adults and teenagers. Through her live workshops, online courses and private lessons, she has worked with hundreds of students across North America and Europe. katbula.com - YouTube - Instagram - Facebook - Bandcamp |
Olivia Brownlee
"Brownlee is a versatile musician.... The colorful character... can easily veer from folk to jazz to rock." --The Spokesman-Review
Olivia Brownlee is an unforgettable performer and singer-songwriter with deep roots in early-20th century jazz and cowboy music, as well as a master's degree in theater for social change. Since October 2014, Brownlee has recorded and released a new song every month, each recorded in a different studio. This project, dubbed "Songography" and released through Patreon and Soundcloud, now includes close to 100 songs, each bearing the sonic stamp of the studio it was recorded in and the collaborators involved. Other current projects include "This is Where You Live" (an album of songs celebrating the history and community of Spokane, Washington), and "How To Write Songs: A One-Woman Show in Three-Part Harmony." Brownlee is also a member of two Spokane bands, The Zonky Jazz Band and Rockabilly Space Force, and an international facilitator of "Music as a Second Language" workshops she has designed, which teach people to use music as a form of intercultural communication across language barriers. oliviabrownlee.com - Patreon - Soundcloud - YouTube - Facebook Olivia and Kat are also founding cohort songwriters of the Know Better, Do Better Project, an initiative which has received multiple grants to support the creation of new folk and educational songs as viable alternatives to popular songs rooted in minstrelsy and other problematic traditions. The project was launched in 2021 via a livestream concert hosted by Boston’s Club Passim, and is still open for new submissions. |
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This is our first outing as a twosome -- we're looking forward to getting some good duo footage to share!
In the meantime...
here's a sampling of our work individually, and together with our occasional trio Josephine the Volcano.
As you can hear, we run a gamut of roots/Americana influences,
from high-energy bluegrass and swing, to thoughtful contemporary folk, and beyond.
In the meantime...
here's a sampling of our work individually, and together with our occasional trio Josephine the Volcano.
As you can hear, we run a gamut of roots/Americana influences,
from high-energy bluegrass and swing, to thoughtful contemporary folk, and beyond.
Songs by Kat
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Songs by Olivia
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