043 - Kath Bloom [Folk]: May 2nd @ Hideout

Kath Bloom was born to musical parents. Her father was famous oboe player: Robert Bloom. She loved and lived for music of all kinds, but by the late seventies , she had absorbed much of the amazing folk and rock musicians who lived and died and changed the world during those times. She sang harmony with her friends ,and eventually picked up a guitar and wrote her own stuff. Teaming up with Loren Mazzacane and Tom Hanford in New Haven Ct, she became very prolific. But performing made her nervous and strangely withdrawn. She also painted and wrote poetry, then had a child and a failed marriage. She later found Stan Bronski(second husband). They had two more boys. All the while, writing and singing. She also began doing music with small children, eventually teaching classes. Moving from New England to Florida, she created theater and music with kids and formed a woman"s band which was fun. All her playing to this point was local to the regions she lived. When the family moved back to New England in 2000, she had become a horse trainer also, working with many young or "difficult" animals and this also was medicine for her soul. .And always recording. In Ct she reunited music with Hanford again, playing in that region, for kids and familes.,working with horses, raising the family In 2007 Guy Blackman ( Chapter Music) and Caveh Zahedi (film maker) contacted her about doing a Tribute album. Her songs were recorded by Bill Callahan, Meg Baird, Mark Kozelek and others. Gradually invites came from England, Spain, and eventually Japan and Australia. She also began casual occasional touring in this country. In 2016 she made a video with Esther May Campbell in Bristol, England. She has many self-produced albums plus ones put out by Guy Blackman and Mark Kozelek, Now she enjoys performing most of all , plays with Flo Ness and David Shapiro and is grateful to all that have encouraged her!! " Devastating songwriting" NPR Song of the Day "A supremely intuitive singer and songwriter" Pitchfork Magazine "One of the most beautiful singers ever. Heartbreaking" Devendra Banhart "Urgent yet calming. A call of reckoning" Nat Hentoff Village Voice Kath Bloom & Moon Bros. at the Hideout: https://www.facebook.com/events/264192674490117/