A mix of folk, jazz and pop with a rustic approach.

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FOLK: Folk Pop, FOLK: like Joni



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âSophisticated mix of folk, jazz, pop and rustica with intelligent lyricsâ
The INDEPENDENT, âBluebirdâ review, Dec 2005

âStrikingly originalâ
UNCUT, âBluebirdâ review, Dec 2005

âKTB has honeyed rivers and mothering embraces for a voice. KTB has a mournful-joyful tunefulness rising so effortlessly from violin, cello and bongos that it seems more natural than breathing.â
Plan B Magazine, review of KTB Collective Truck Festival performance, September 2006

KTB (aka 23 year-old Katy Bennett) has been writing songs about elephants, vegetarianism and unrequited love since the age of 12. She released her critically acclaimed debut album âAll Calm In Dreamlandâ in 2002 (âGentle acoustics from the Nick Drake school⦠literate songs which ride youthâs emotional rollercoasterâ UNCUT, Jan 2003) and, later that same year, was a finalist at the BBC Young Folk Awards.
Her second album, âBluebirdâ, was recorded in and around a portacabin studio on a farm in rural Oxfordshire between the summer of 2004 and the spring of 2005 with her brother Joe (of the band Goldrush) producing. Its beautiful, heart-wrenching eleven and a half songs deal with those universal emotions of love, loss, despair, friendship and hope.
Under the influence of such great writers and interpreters of song as Dory Previn, Patsy Cline, Gillian Welch, Kathryn Williams and Jolie Holland, KTB sings and plays guitar and piano in a country/jazz/folk/oddball pop style (if you feel the need to pigeon-hole), while her sparse arrangements are subtly augmented by guitars, percussion, strings and the occasional bass and drum kit. KTB is currently recording her third album, entitled âThe Girl with the Sad Shoesâ.
KTB has toured the UK extensively over the past few years, including support slots with Karine Polwart, Eliza Carthy, Jim Moray, Erin Mckeown, KT Tunstall and Martin Simpson and 2 co-headline tours with Canadians Gabe & Ruth Minnikin (ex-The Guthries) and Rachael Dadd (of Whalebone Polly). KTBâs many festival appearances have included Truck, Priddy, Fishguard, Oxford, Salisbury Live and South by SouthWest 2004 in Austin, Texas.
She performs solo, as a duo (with guitarist Phill Ward) and with her band, The KTB Collective (ranging in size from three to sixteen depending on the occasion). Katy also leads music and singing workshops for children and adults in and around Birmingham as well as at festivals all over the UK (including Green Man and Stainsby).
In 2006, KTBâs professional singing career took a fruitful albeit unexpected detour when she was engaged by the RSC to sing (in Sicilian) for their production of Romeo & Juliet in Stratford-Upon-Avon as part of The Complete Worksâ Festival season. So who knows whatâs to come for the versatile Miss KTBâ¦