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Karen Killeen

Debut album planned this year

About Me

Karen has been enthralling audiences across the country for more than 30 years, originally influenced by the likes of Miriam Backhouse and other contemporaries. Along the way she has been encouraged by such people as Vin Garbutt, Dougie McLean, and Malc Stent. She has appeared on local radio several times and more recently has received favourable comments with regard to her songwriting capabilities. Karen sings with emotion and uses sensitive guitar accompaniments to give a complete performance of a song which has been known to reduce grown men to tears.Until the untimely death of her singing partner Steve in January, she was to be found jumping around on stage with ’Bus Stop’, a 60’s to 00’s covers band. Now she is experiencing a renaissance with her own singing and it has been predicted that this will be her year.Karen is available for gigs, message her for more details.

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Member Since: 12/2/2007
Band Members: Available solo, or supported by her band members - Matt Weeden on bass, Colin Jones on lead guitar and Carl Peake on drums
Sounds Like: Karen has often been compared to, in the folk world, Miriam Backhouse, Maddy Prior, June Tabor. In contemporary music, her voice has been likened to that of Alison Moyet or Cher.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new direction

Before Bus Stop ended Steve and I bought a laptop and the softwear to be able to perform to backing tracks. Much as I love live music and will never lose that, sometimes it's not always possible. Last...
Posted by Karen Killeen on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:55:00 PST

Gigs

If you have or know a venue you'd like me to appear at, please let me know. Karen. x
Posted by Karen Killeen on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:16:00 PST

Starting again

After the sudden death of Steve in January I felt lost. As someone said to me, music is a great healer and I firmly believe that especially as we were both musicians. Life has to go on, and so I ...
Posted by Karen Killeen on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:15:00 PST

Bus Stop page

Have set up a new myspace page dedicated to Bus Stop and to the memory of Steve Whitehead. Please vist and encourage other friends to do so. Thanks.
Posted by Karen Killeen on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:40:00 PST