Kate Green

Hi there!Thank you for visiting my site and welcome. If you request to be added as a friend I promise I will visit your site and listen to all your tracks! I will also do my best to add a comment to your site. The quantity and quality of great music out there is astonishing and we should all be supporting that genuinely.I was fortunate enough to be raised in a family of good muscians and singers and so my earliest influences are my parents and older brothers and sisters who were performing in folk clubs in Greenock as teenagers in the mid-60's. We moved to England and I played and sang in school concerts and solo in the choir! I didn't perform in a folk club myself until I was in my mid-twenties in Sheffield.In the late 80's I performed as a duo with my partner Raymond Greenoaken, member of the north eastern band Badger in the Bag, whom I later joined. Other band members were Michael Coleman (Whapweasel - see Myspace), John Fuller (Johnny and the Prison Didn't Help Boys and Roger the Badger), and Mike Blakey. We spent a couple of years touring - ended up being filmed for News at Ten at the Star Club, Glasgow in 1990 when it was the European City of Culture! I was famous for three seconds! In the early 90's I formed a new band: Kate Green and the Taproot String Band with Raymond, Mike Coleman and Patrick Walker culminating in the album 'An Unkindness of Ravens' in 1994, produced by Steafan Hannigan. The album was originally released on cassette and is now re-released on CD (2006). You can hear 4 tracks from Ravens on Myspace, but bear in mind quality has been compromised as 3 of the tracks are quite long. The album is much better! At this time - the mid nineties - there was a resurgence of interest in the music of the Incredible String Band, and we briefly became the Half Remarkable Questionnaires (with Helmut Rhiengans) performing a repertoire of ISB covers at a series of conventions to celebrate the band's legacy which were attended by people from all over the world. In 1991 I won the Singer of the Year award at the National Folk Festival.A professional career (I'm a counsellor specialising in alcohol addiction), family commitments and a chronic back condition, meant that I kept a low profile musically for the best part of 10 years, doing the odd floor spot in local folk clubs. More recently my daughter Eleanor and I have been recording with Clive Palmer of the Incredible String Band; his new album, as yet untitled, is due out fairly soon. Eleanor sings beautifully and writes songs too.So here I am again rehearsing lots of new material with professional musician Patrick Walker - see us down at Fagans in Sheffield on a Tuesday evening. Patrick also plays with the fantastic jazz combo The Dizzy Club. He needs his own Myspace site! We're working on it. With a bit of luck we'll soon have a list of gigs to put up on this site.To purchase a copy of 'An Unkindness of Ravens', please e-mail me.Thank you for reading!Love,Kate