Tracy K

Bio:

.. .. AWARDS
2007 Ontario Independent Music Award - BEST BLUES
2007 International Songwriting Competition Award Recipient - BLUES and PERFORMANCE
2007 Toronto Blues Society Talent Search First Runner Up
2006 WinnipegBlues.com HARMONICA PLAYER of the Year Award
2006 WinnipegBlues.com FEMALE VOCALIST of the Year Award
2006 Winnipegblues.com ELECTRIC ACT of the Year Nominee

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Tracy K possesses the charisma, talent, and versatility instinctive of great performers. it's her amazing and well controlled voice that first captivates - a hallmark often compared to Janis Joplin with the finesse of Bonnie Raitt. She scats, moans, belts and croons. "Tracy K plays a nice harmonica...the real treat is her voice, well-controlled and gritty as a whiskey soaked hobnail" - Jeremy Loomes, Edmonton Sun.
Well known on the Canadian Blues scene, Tracy K’s talents have earned multiple awards including "Harmonica Player of the Year". Her fans love her songwriting, and her smart cover song choices. "Her songs are very well written, a seamless blend of blues, country and rock - not a surprise, perhaps, given the Thunder Bay / Winnipeg focus." - John Valenteyn, Maple Blues Magazine.
Her music has taken her from Canada to the Caribbean as a stand-alone attraction and on playbills with other greats. You can experience her fronting her own projects, singing harmonies and playing harmonica for other artists, and as a featured vocalist at special events - she is a featured vocalist with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra's 2010/11 cabaret series. She keeps busy on a wide variety of musical projects, and likes to tour as a four piece band or duo. Tracy K and her (award winning) Right Hand Band is a great festival and club act that perform rock solid originals and covers of blues, roots, and swing. For full band info and promo, go to tracyk.ca "Thunder Bay's Tracy K wowed the crowd at the Blues Summit with her engaging stage presence and a killer band." - Maple Blues magazine May 2009
Her foot-stompin' kitchen party acoustic Blues Duo based out of Thunder Bay has been delighting audiences in concert across Ontario and Manitoba over the recent past, from festivals to entertainment series. They perform lively ragtime and fingerstyle blues from the early 20th century like Sippie Wallace, Blind Blake, and Reverend Gary Davis. Visit Blues Duo on her website with full info, photos and sound. "We are always pleased to have Tracy K & Jamie play, as they draw a crowd from miles around. Their exceptional talent, wit, humour, day to day stories keeps people coming back." - John Cox, Green Achers of Wabigoon, Ontario
She has recently stepped out with the guitarist from her Right Hand Band as a jazz duo, combining their undeniable talent with their fun loving characters. Their sound is derived from classic jazz and blues of the Billie Holiday era. Tony and Tracy first started as a jazz & blues duo in 1999 in Winnipeg, but they were diverted into several other musical projects. Now their duo act is back in action, with a decade's worth of experience from working together. See Tn'T Jazz Duo
  Tracy K has shared stages and playbills with many artists at countless venues - too numerous to mention. A couple of Tracy K’s own personal thrills include being the first female featured at the Toronto Blues Society’s Harmonica Workshop, opening for harmonica legend James Cotton and sharing a playbill with one of her first blues influences, the great Koko Taylor. "Opening for James Cotton was Tracy K, whose performance confirmed why she was the best act at the first blues fest" - Ken Wright, Thunder Bay Blues Society
For a full profile on Tracy K, her beginnings, past gigs, photos, sound, press kit and more, visit her website. “...an impressive harmonica player, with a voice that commands your attention. Add her songwriting, her versatility, and her on-stage charisma and you've got someone special.” - www.canadianblues.ca
You can purchase her music at select stores (see tracyk.ca) using Paypal, or at cd.baby

Member Since:

March 14, 2007

Members:

TRACY K & HER RIGHT HAND BAND:
Tracy K - vocals, harmonica, rhythm guitar
Tony "Pops" Desmarteau - lead electric guitar, b.g. vocals
Vaughan "Bad Son" Poyser - electric bass
Ty "Good Son" Rogers - drums, Zendrum

Tn'T JAZZ & BLUES DUO:
Tracy K - vocals, harmonica, rhythm guitar
Tony Desmarteau - electric jazz guitar, vocals

Delta/Piedmont style BLUES DUO:
Tracy K - vocals, acoustic guitar, and harmonica
Jamie "SNAKEMAN" Steinhoff - dobro and acoustic fingerstyle and slide guitars, vocals

TRACY K & BLUE THUNDER (Tracy K with her local Thunder Bay band) featuring:
Kelly Ash and/or Rob Jardine on guitar
Arden Bruyere on bass
Stu Green on drums

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Influences:

Chicago, Texas, Piedmont & Delta Blues / jazz, rags & swing / Old Rock & Folk Rock / Contemporary Blues

Sounds Like:

I am consistently compared to whiskey edged raspy singers like Joplin, Etheridge, Plant, Raitt. I have also been caught singing Billie Holiday style jazz and swing, and did a killer cover of Anne Murray (?), so there. I'm a VOCALIST. Harmonica playing influenced by Sonny Terry, Sonny Boys One & Two, Little Walter, and James Cotton. Songwriting similar to Bonnie Raitt's material, Lucinda Williams, Delbert McClinton, contemporary blues & folk rock styles. My latest recording has even had one critic draw songwriting comparisons to Santana! The same critic also referenced Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. So you see, we are all unique, and made up of all the millions of little pieces of everything that ever touched our lives - right???? (my little philosophy)

Record Label:

buy at cd baby or at my website using paypal