Meow Meow about Kitty:
I'm Jaime RT, from Salt Spring Island BC Canada. I compose and play a 5 string viola I call a "fiddola", and keys. (Not the kind I start my old truck with). I love the earth, my community, and the transformational power of music. I went to University and got a degree in composition and classical piano, and that was pretty fun. Now I love to create my own tunes, which I hope you'll have a listen to, and I should mention that I am rather fond of cats. (Some call me Kitty).
Getting Serious:
My debut album "Reach" was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award, a Western Canadian Music Award, and a Plain Folk Music Award. I have just made a new album which I think is even better-- it's a fab duo album with the rockin' Andy Hillhouse (guitar, vocals) called "Spark"; it's just been officially released on Dog My Cat Records. My music has been featured on CBC's Vinyl Cafe and I am currently the subject of a documentary film being made about my educational work with fiddle students in BC and the Northwest Territories (www.fiddleworks.ca).
I love treking the North teaching fiddle in remote aboriginal villages and eating caribou and playing music with the locals and wearing my parka under the Northern Lights. So when I'm not touring my music or teaching or holed up composing or out in the garden hangin' with the fairies, then I'm probably having a great time on the road playing with my wonderful friend and musical co-creator Andy Hillhouse or Canada's most amazing singer/songwriter, James Keelaghan. And that's Jaime RT in a nutshell. (I am a nut. Are you?)
