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Kathleen Haskard
9+ albums
Californiafolk rockalt countryfolkunder 100 listeners
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Kathleen Haskard - singer songwriter poet Sinner/songwriter/expatriate is a 4th generation native Californian who is based primarily in London but spends her down time in a canyon on the Pacific coast in the Santa Monica Mountains above Ventura County Line.. She is a culturally aware musician who passionately believes in the healing power of music, people power and that the personal is most definitely political. Kathleen’s twisted family tree boasts a Mexican folk hero and a radical visionary Irishman who was a prime foot soldier in the American labor movement. Kathleen had the honour of lending her voice as an alto in the choir that underpinned Neil Young's seminal album LIVING WITH WAR. A recent recipient of a PeaceDriven Songwriting Award for her song ‘Will Someone Explain?’, Kathleen’s poetry has been lauded as well. Her poem ‘Of Shoes & Men’ was awarded 1st prize by Andrew Motion the UK’s Poet Laureate, in a London Arts Festival competition. Kathleen’s new Chuck Prophet/Simon Alpin produced album DON”T TELL is a collection of dark folk rock songs with an alt edge that dangles between the Americana of Lucinda Williams & the PunkRock of Patti Smith. Lyrically provocative, sonically soothing the songs have deep connections with the latent sexual and emotional paradoxes all around us. She is blessed with the lateral insight to pluck the beauty out of the brackish backwash. Relationship dynamics are turned inside out and meanings spun on their heads. Food for the he
