Kathy Raven – Saturday April 28, 2012
Time:
18:30 for 20:00;
Tickets:
R85 per person;
“This lady sings the Blues! Kathy Raven is one of South Africa’s musical treasures”
Karl Muller, The Sunday Independent.“In the years since she captured the public’s musical imagination, the multi-talented musician has established a formidable reputation as a deeply expressive singer, a prodigiously talented guitarist and distinctive songwriter.”
Marjorie Gueron, Black Owl Music, Miami/New York“Kathy Raven’s song-writing is out of the top drawer, and she plays a mean guitar too!”
Leon Economides. Rockfest manager and presenter at 93.8FM Rockfest
Kathy Raven
If you like the Blues, if you like deep Folk, and you like to groove, you will love Kathy Raven.
Ms Raven’s first love is the Blues…but truly soulful song-writing requires a palette more varied to cover the Artistes emotional spectrum….Kwela.Folk.Funk.Kathy believes these genres were created to tell a story and she does that with feeling and style.
From a musical family, Kathy’s dad Crow Raven (aka Bill Grant, Decca recording artist and smooth crooner from the sixties) had her singing for people from the age of four!
Kathy has performed locally with (amongst others)..Blondie & Pappa Makhene, Louis Mhlanga, Anton Goosen, Dan Patlansky, Jennifer Ferguson, Tim Parr (Ellamental)..in Studio and live, and also supported Crosby Stills and Nash and Shawn Phillips on their SA tours.
Ms Raven’s passion is to bring the Blues home to Africa and for the last three years she has been travelling and performing at festivals and clubs around the USA, learning more about the origins of the blues by collaborating with American artistes, then coming home and work-shopping with Southern African musicians in Swaziland, Mozambique and South Africa, creating a uniquely African Blues feel…it will move you, groove you and bring a tear to your eye
At home in Jozi Kathy performs solo or with her band The Tech Ryders, featuring the talented Graeme Sacks, Pete Sklair and Brett Collings.
She has been involved in many recording projects and has recorded two solo CDs, Loveseed and Poetry Lounge (sponsored and sold by Poetry Stores nationwide) which sold like hotcakes, and a new exciting project is in the baking….as they say in the classics..watch this space!!!
Have a listen to some tracks at www.reverbnation.com/kathyravenband and then get a digital download at www.rhythmrecords.co.za/kathyraven .
Bookings essential
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Tel. :
042 293 2500
E-mail :
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Adres / Address :
Hoek van Oosterland & St Francis Straat, Jeffreysbaai
Corner of Oosterland & St Francis Street, Jeffreys Bay
