Katie's Free Range Music Project

About Katie Henderson:

I sing and play old-time style mandolin. I'm told I fall somewhere between Edith Piaf and Phoebe Buffay. Ok, I pretty much sound like Phoebe Buffay. 

 

My repertoire includes Appalachian and Child ballads, Carter family, Southern gospel, classic country and blues, Celtic love songs, and Irish drinking songs. Oh yes, and Metallica.

 

I have been writing original songs for years, many of which have environmental themes because I think it's important to not trash our planet: Pretty Blue Marble, Mary Sue's Blue Subaru Blues, When Women Save the World, Plant a Garden, and Lucid Dreaming.  I also write funny songs about everyday subjects such as Cleaning Out My Email, I Hate to Vacuum, and What's in Your Refrigerator. A few are published here.

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Yes, I get paid to play.

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For a small venue or house concert my fee is $250, including sound.  (I have a Bose L-1 sound system that isn't loud... unless you want it to be.) Opening for a headliner is $100. I can play continuously for four hours without doing the same song twice. I can do a set with all traditional or original songs (meaning no copyrighted songs) for venues that don't have an ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC license.

 

Catharine (Katie) Henderson

980-389-9155

catharine@charter.net

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SOLO PERFORMANCES

Hickory Farmer's Market

Redbone Willy's Trading Company

Davidson Farmer's Market

Conover Farmer's Market

Apple Hill Orchard in Morganton

Belmont Abbey College

Carter Family Fold in Hiltons VA

Zoe's Coffeehouse in Gastonia

Burke Arts Council in Morganton

Zander's Coffeehouse in Newton

Street busking in Asheville

 

OPENED FOR...

David Childers, Lenny Federal and Tokyo Rosenthal.

 

IN CONCERT with Barrie Howard's Vagabonds in
Lincolnton, Blowing Rock, Chimney Rock, and Denver.

 

SING-ALONG EVENTS

The Jim Bob Tinsley Museum in Brevard (now called the Transylvania County History Museum. Liked the old name better.)

Our Saviour's Episcopal Church in Lincolnton

My house on Sunday afternoons

 

STUDIED WITH...

Wayne Erbsen, Ralph Blizard, Ginnie Hawker and Tracy Schwarz, Cliff Eberhardt, Cathy Jordan, and others at the Swannanoa Gathering. Attended the Solatido songwriter workshop at Wildacres.

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Last year on the Winter Solstice, I was on Sandy Carlton's Podcast from the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC.