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  • Genre: Blues / Roots Music / Soul

    Location Edmonton, Alberta, CA

    Profile Views: 27001

    Last Login: 7/5/2011

    Member Since 9/23/2006

    Website www.KatDanser.com

    Record Label Outside Music

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Edmonton-based guitarist, songwriter and vocalist Kat Danser throws down funky, laidback rhythms and thought-provoking lyrics. Her Swamp Blues style, steeped in early roots and blues traditions, distills a refreshing approach to roots, blues, and gospel music for the 21st Century. She reveals a new take on centuries-old premises, and is adept at taking jabs at modern-day cultural phenomena. As well as an excellent tunesmith, Danser is a multi-instrumentalist, playing the Weissenborn Hawaiian lap slide guitar, a vintage acoustic Gibson, National steel resophonic slide guitar, a tack head banjo and the Zydeco scrubboard. Passin'-A-Time (released late 2010) is Danser's third album. She draws a direct line from the Canadian Prairies to the Mississippi Delta through evocative songwriting that takes us with her from the wheat fields of Saskatchewan to the cotton fields of Mississippi. Danser has a deep passion, understanding and respect for Delta blues, one of the earliest forms of North American popular music, and has made several study trips to the Mississippi Delta, drawing heavily on the rich and fertile musical climate there. This new album is a testament to those cultural encounters. Rich in tradition yet modernistic in tone, Passin'-A-Time chronicles her unique musical journey along the rivers and rails of this continent. This latest CD, distributed by Outside Music, is currently charting at number 1 on CKUA, number 5 on CJSR and number 6 on CJSW. A national touring and award-winning artist, Danser has performed at the Calgary International Blues Festival, Edmonton Folk Music Festival, Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, Calgary Folk Festival, Saskatoon Blues Festival, Lethbridge Roots & Blues Festival, Stir Crazy Festival, Tucson Folk Festival, Saltspring Island Jazz & Blues Festival, Island MusicFest, Juke Joint Festival and CBC Festival of Lights. Media reviews and interviews have occurred on CBC Radio, Global TV, Halifax Chronicle, Vancouver Georgia Straight, Edmonton Journal, CKUA Radio, Winnipeg Free Press, CTV, Edmonton Sun, Toronto Blues Society, Blues Matters!; with highlights being interviewed for the film project Blues Women in Canada, her recent debut directorial film release titled Rails & Rivers: Searching for the Heart of the Blues, and co-hosting a recent edition of Nach’l Blues on CKUA with Holger Petersen.. Born in Saskatchewan, and raised to the sound of her mother playing autoharp, Danser came into this world armed with a deep love of and respect for music. Her Polish Catholic family upbringing instilled a strong work ethic in her, balanced by time spent in front of the radio to hear the early roots music of the day. At the age of 5, Danser's uncle gave her a button accordion and a family friend taught her to slap the spoons to Acadian rhythms. Danser, an Ethnomusicology graduate student at the University of Alberta, is currently in pre-production with film maker Michael McDonald for a new documentary project titled Women in Blues: Turn the Page. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....retro layout.... powered by ......HOT..FreeLayouts.com.... / ..MyHotComments..

  • Members

    Kat Danser Band: Don Benedictson, Christian Dugas, Steve Dawson

  • Influences

    Corey Harris, Ma Rainey, Ben Harper, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Robert Randolph, Elizabeth Cotton, Mavis Staples, Ferron, Lucinda Williams, Steve Dawson, Eric Bibb. *********************************************************************.. ....plain layout.... @ ......HOT..FreeLayouts.com.... .......... ..HotFreeLayouts.. ..

  • Sounds Like

    The passion of Robert Randolph, the calm of Corey Harris and the personality of Mavis Staples. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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