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Kate Doubleday

New CD "Belonging" out now!

About Me


Photographs by Kamlesh Dahri
When I havn’t got my gardening boots on I am writing songs about nature, family, love and loss.
Some of the songs here are from our debut CD ‘Renewal’ on the independent label Copper records.
RENEWAL 2003

To buy Renewal for £7.99 + £1.50 p+p (PayPal) just click on the button below:

"Kate's music is so original as to defy categorisation - 'world music' that stretches from the Heart of England to South Africa" (Folk Mag)
"Her reedy, soaring voice has the taste of summer rain." "Sounding not unlike a one woman Poozies, her songs of loss and renewal weave an evocative cool spell". (Netrhythms.co.uk)
COPPER RECORDS 2008

To buy Belonging £12 incl. p+p (PayPal) just click on the button below:

Produced by Joe Broughton, Illustrations by Helen Kozich & Design by David Thorpe
    "an album that seeps inside you, taking root and blossoming into a spiritual soundtrack for the soul"(Mike Davies -Netrhythms)

Go by the website www.katedoubleday.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/21/2006
Band Website: katedoubleday.com
Band Members: Who are true wizards and mean the world to me. Without their innumerable talents, their time and magic the songs would never come alive.

Trevor Lines- Double Bass

Dan Wilkins - Guitar/Kora

Pamela Pinnock- Vocals

Tina Barnes - Vocals

Tom Chapman - Percussion
Guest CD Artists on 'Renewal':
Sid Peacock - Guitar
Sarah Winton-Vocals
Ruth Angell -Violin
Adrian Holme-Harmonica
Mark Lockett-Percussion
Rocky Amoo-Percussion

Influences:
Wildlife habitats

Community gardening

Tree houses!

Frances Horovitz

Musical influences-
Zap Mama, Frankie Armstrong, Kristin Linklater, Bobby McFerrin, Mouthmusic, Cassandra Wilson, Abdullah Ibrahim, Taj Mahal, Baaba Maal, Les mysteres des voix Bulgares, Sheila Chandra, Kate Rusby, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Be good Tanyas, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Flook, E2k, Nina Simone, Gabriel Yared,
Sounds Like: Us!
Record Label: Copper Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Review

Happy springtime!Here is a recent review of 'Belonging' that Mike Wilson has written for Folking .comKate Doubleday's Belonging exudes a charming eccentricity, both in terms of obliqueness of lyrics a...
Posted by Kate Doubleday on Mon, 05 May 2008 03:51:00 PST

Belonging

Hey! -I am so tickled to announce that my new CD "Belonging" is released tomorrow on Copper Records!The long journey&well, it started in late 2006 when, with help from an Arts Council grant, I took te...
Posted by Kate Doubleday on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:09:00 PST

Review of Belonging

A recent lovely review of ’Belonging’ by Mike Davies for Netrhythms (March 2008)Kate Doubleday - Belonging (Copper)Longtime resident of suburban Birmingham, now domiciled in rural Wales wh...
Posted by Kate Doubleday on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:47:00 PST

New Website!

Exciting times ahead!We have just launched our lovely new website www.katedoubleday.com.Please do have a visit- If you open the wind up radio player you will find three new song clips from our forthc...
Posted by Kate Doubleday on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:15:00 PST

Wild Poppies - early release

Wild PoppiesStop GM coming back! In the Guardian yesterday Alok Jha, the science correspondent has stated that government ministers have given their backing to a renewed campaign by farmers and indu...
Posted by Kate Doubleday on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:14:00 PST

Mirror Culture

In 1991 i spent some time traveling around West Africa and in an unconscious way, i was able to peel away some of the self imposed beliefs i had of myself and my culture- this has never left me and i ...
Posted by Kate Doubleday on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:15:00 PST

All things Copper

We are really pleased to have Tom Chapman on board playing percussion, he is a wizard on Cajon and has been exploring the sounds of copper on our new songs. i have been collecting reclaimed copper fr...
Posted by Kate Doubleday on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:11:00 PST

New work

Thanks goes -to the fantastic support from band and friends to create new work. September went well working on 5 new songs for second album 'Belonging'. The songs take influences from the late poet F...
Posted by Kate Doubleday on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:25:00 PST