The Long Memory Concert Series Featuring Kate MacLeod and Duncan Phillips
Saturday, Sep 10, 2011
Location:
Ken Sanders Rare Books
Kate MacLeod is living proof that time, maturity, and a good place to grow only make you better. Kate composes classic American music while living in the region of Utah; home of rich folklore, the roaming grounds of Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch, the land from where Utah Phillips took his name. Kate is a sought-after performer, studio musician, and leader of master classes and workshops, who is best known for her original songs and her unique fiddling style. Her collection of original songs includes a spectrum of material; from thoughtful songs of love and the human experience, to songs based on books, on philosophical questions or about folk legends. Kate's songs have been featured on nationally syndicated radio shows including Tom May's “River City Folk,” the holiday program hosted by Judy Collins, “Peace on Earth,” and have been sung by others on “A Prairie Home Companion.” You will find fans of many music genres in an audience gathered to hear Kate MacLeod perform. Her songs catch the ears of new artists, traditional singers, bluegrass musicians, celtic musicians and songwriters of many styles. Her songs find new life through other musicians at jam sessions and performances throughout the country and have been recorded by artists from California to the Czech Republic.
Since
her first recording’s release
in 1995, Kate has performed regularly from stages in formal concert
halls to
hose at outdoor festivals. Kate has released five studio recordings,
three on
Waterbug Records, and two on Wind River/Folk Era. She has performed for
the
First Lady, in concert with speaker Jane Goodall and in a variety of
special
events. In addition to her national performances, Kate MacLeod is lead
singer
in the Emmy Award-winning PBS television production, Red Rock Rondo,
that was
debuted in May of 2009 as part of the 100th-year anniversary
celebration of
Zion National Park. When not on tour Kate performs with other
Utah-based
music groups such as The KlezBros featuring Klezmer and Romanian gypsy
music
and the Celtic music group Shanahy.
As the
son of Bruce, "Utah”
Phillips, Duncan Phillips began
traveling on the road with his father in the winter of 2000.
Utah
referred to Duncan as his "road manager",
but Duncan jokes that everyone knows his father couldn't be managed.
Bruce
always had the dream of playing on stage together
with his son, but as a kid, Duncan could never
reconcile that in learning
to play
the guitar,
he would be learning one of the very
things that kept him separated from his father for so many
years.
Duncan performed on stage just shortly after his dad's death in 2008.
Along
with Utah's old road-worn Guild guitar, Duncan inherited the songs and
stories
of the people and places that his father wrote about over his forty plus years of
wandering the country.
In Duncan's own words: "Well, even though he may be gone, every time
I'm
on the stage, he is there with me and this my story,
so far...”
http://thelongmemory.com/
http://www.katemacleod.com/