Kathy Kallick

An eclectic combination of root base music continues to be incorporated in to the music of Oakland, CA-based vocalist/acoustic guitarist Kathy Kallick. Being a founding member (but still energetic after 2 decades) of gender-bending string music group the nice Ol’ People, a duet partner of Laurie Lewis, and the first choice of her very own group, the tiny Big Music group, Kallick provides performed from traditional folk music and gospel to bluegrass and nation music. Kallick’s second single record, Contact Me a Taxi cab, marked her initial attempt at making an all-bluegrass documenting and was a a reaction to her debut record, Matters from the Heart, including drums, piano, and metal drums. Kallick uncovered a different aspect of her persona with two children’s music albums: What Perform You DREAM OF, released in 1990 and reissued in 1997, and Make use of Your Napkin (Not really Your Mother) in 1995. A indigenous of Chicago, Kallick was raised within the suburbs of Evanston, IL. Her like of music was inherited from her parents. Her dad plays traditional acoustic guitar and recorder, while her mom is really a traditional pianist who performed folk acoustic guitar and dulcimer and was associated with the folk music picture in Chicago in the past due ’50s and early ’60s. Although she spent her senior high school years rebelling against her parents’ desired music and became a self-professed Beatlemaniac, she discovered her in the past to her musical origins at age 18 when she obtained a Martin D-28 classical guitar and started playing traditional music. Going to Kansas City Artwork Institute for any year, Kallick fulfilled a guitar-playing friend in 1970 who confident her to change to some steel-string acoustic guitar. Kallick sharpened her abilities by performing unique tunes in folk music coffeehouses in Chicago. She sometimes performed with her mom, singing tranquility on traditional tunes. After departing Chicago, Kallick spent annually in Iowa, associated bluegrass fiddlers at regional fiddle contests. Kallick relocated to north California’s Bay Region in 1973. Even though folk music circuit was mainly inactive, the region acquired a burgeoning bluegrass picture. The five ladies in the original Great Ol’ Persons originally came jointly at celebrations and music occasions. Kallick’s participation was sparked when she and Barbara Mendelsohn, who was simply in the initial group, visited a folk celebration jointly and rode house in the trunk seat of an automobile, singing songs. Get together regularly once weekly, the nice Ol’ Persons began to consider their music even more significantly. Performing their initial shows in Feb 1975, they began attracting focus on their unique type of root base music. Although they’ve been through many personnel adjustments, the group celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary using a concert in November 1995 that premiered because the live record, Great N’ Live. Through the entire 1970s, Kallick continued to be energetic being a bluegrass musician in north California. Furthermore to dealing with the nice Ol’ People, she performed and documented with mandolinist Frank Wakefield and created albums for Great Lonesome. Kallick reunited with unique Good Ol’ People member Laurie Lewis for the duo record, Jointly, in 1991. Furthermore to remaining energetic with the most recent lineup of the nice Ol’ People, Kallick continues to be touring with her very own group, the tiny Big Band, offering John Reischman (mandolin), Todd Phillips (bass), and Keith Small (second business lead vocals, banjo, electric guitar, fiddle).