Kate Bollinger

Kate Bollinger's folk-pop songs tend to linger well beyond their run times, filling the negative space of ordinary days with charming melodies and smart phrasings. With a background in jazz she writes them at home in Richmond, Virginia, letting her subconscious lead, an open-ended process she likens to dreaming.

From a chord progression appears a line, maybe a syllable will start to stick, enough to pursue, but she says sometimes the words don't feel like her own, more like shapes that form in the mind's sky. While many are personal and deal with the emotions that surface with finding her place in the world, she'd prefer they be whatever you'd like them to be, to connect with listeners in their own way.

Inspired by the music of the '60s and '70s, particularly a lot of the old Beatles demos, Bollinger's musical universe is relaxed, tender, and unassuming; within lives a timeless sensibility, a songwriter's knack for noticing the little things and their counterpoints. Darkness and light, pain and pleasure, reality and escape.