Kathleen Haskard - singer songwriter poet

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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 head, medicine for the heart.

Bug Music saw the songwriting jewels glinting in Kathleen’s eyes and welcomed her deft touch and panoramic vision and signed her to coincide with the release of her first album INTO THE DEEP. Her latest album DON’T TELL is out on Howlin' Hound Records and Nine Mile Records

Her co-writers include Chuck Prophet, Stacey Earle, Texan songstress Sandy Stewart (Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Tina Turner, Belinda Carlisle, Bow Wow Wow) and Eric Lowen & Dan Navarro (The Bangles, Pat Benetar, The Temptations, The Four Tops).
Her cuts include 'Losers Weep' which is on Stacey Earle's debut album, Simple Gearle and features Steve Earle on backing vocals and 'My Own Way Of Doin' Things' on Lowen & Navarro’s, Scratch at the Door.

Kathleen has tuned up and asked for more guitar in the monitors with Chuck Prophet, Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart, Lowen & Navarro, David Poe, Jim White, Steve Earle, Malcolm Holcombe, Bob Frank & John Murry, Ed Harcourt, Jeffrey Foucault, Suzy Boguss, David Lindley, Bap Kennedy, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John Renbourn, The Tiny, Clyde Stubblefield, Glen Tilbrook, Nick Harper and Robyn Hitchcock.

Kathleen currently tours the US twice a year and plays in London, the UK and the rest of Europe solo/with her band/with local guest musicians.
Festivals played include: Glastonbury, Queille (France), BuFest, Folk Alliance, Zihuatanejo (Mexico), Durango, Texas Rock Fest, SXSW, NXNW, Edinburgh Fringe, Galway Arts Festival, BRTO Radio Festival (Netherlands), Camberwell Arts Festival