Kate Power

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Music to Life winner of the Grand Prize at Kerrvillle 2006 for her song, "Travis John", Kate's songs are inspired by a simple take on a complex world. In tandem with music partner and husband, Kate Power & Steve Einhorn build community through the music they write, play and perform and leave their audiences a little richer, positive, and humane. Using a lifetime of tools brought to a fine patina behind the counter at folk instrument shop, Artichoke Music, Kate is refining her focus on art, music and writing, reflecting life as she finds it inside and outside the community. One life in music. Two lives in harmony. Kate Power is a voice whose song is growing.

Kate Power left the east coast and arrived in Portland on the 4th of July, 1977. Born to musical parents in a large Irish-American family in Boston, Massachusetts, music came naturally to Kate. She came of age during the folk revival in "metropolitan New York" (translated New Jersey) and at 15 years old, began to play in coffeehouses & festivals in the region. She established her place in the folk story with her original songs and a voice that people loved to hear. From NYC to Woodstock, she was an active player in the NYC area folk scene until she moved to the Pacific Northwest.

In Portland, Oregon, Kate stepped onstage as the lead singer & multi-instrumentalist in the Portland Irish band, "Wildgeese" (1982, produced by Micheal O'Domhnaill). Kate came into the forefront of the folk scene in the Great Northwest while growing her audience worldwide through recordings with Hearts O'Space (Celtic Twilight 3, Lullabies; Celtic Twilight 4, Celtic Planet, Celtic Woman 3: Ireland (2008)), A&R Italy (Celtica), as well as independent releases with Steve Einhorn (Dancing in the Kitchen, Harbour, Now & Then, Tales from Puddletown, Pearls: The Tribute Collection).

Kate found Artichoke Music two weeks after she arrived in Portland. Her friendship with owner, Steve Einhorn, blossomed into a life partnership in 1994. They have been working and playing together ever since.

DADGAD guitarist, banjo frailer, ukulele picker and percussionist, Kate's first instrument a voice that sings from a deep heart. Warm, expressive and full of life, Kate's song shares more than words; her dusky voice moves close in and echoes the heart beneath the story. As poet, Kim Stafford, likes to say, Kate "writes from the beginning of time", rendering songs that inhabit universal experiences with the feeling of tradition that crosses the borders of place and time.

In tandem with Steve, Kate continues to explore life through music, writing, art and teaching to promote community, peace, goodwill and harmony.

Biography from http://www.qualityfolk.com/