Katie Trautz performs in Calais and in Montgomery Center!

• Sunday, November 8th, 2015 – 7pm – suggested donation $5
Celebration of Expressive Arts
Location: The INN, 241 Main St., Montgomery Center, VT 05471
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• Friday, November 13th, 2015 – 7:30pm
Katie Trautz with Rob Morse – Performing original songs on guitar, banjo, and fiddle
Location: The Whammy Bar, 31 W. County Rd., Calais, VT 05648
802-229-4329, maplecornerstore@gmail.com, http://www.whammybar1.com/

Katie Trautz website: www.katietrautz.com

Katie Trautz is a native Vermont fiddler who has toured nationally and internationally sharing traditional music and original folk songs. She has released three albums in the past three years, two of which have won ‘best traditional album of the year in the state of Vermont. Katie plays fiddle, guitar and banjo crossing genres with her numerous ensembles. She has studied with some of the greatest fiddle players in the US, including Dirk Powell, Pete Sutherland, James Bryan, Jimmy Tripplett, and Bruce Molsky. Katie has played alongside and shared the stage with many well-known bands including: Aoife O'Donovan Band, Brittany Haas & Lauren Rioux, Dirk Powell and Riley Baugus, Deadly Gentlemen, Sheesham and Lotus, David Wax Museum, Matt and Shannon Heaton, Rusty Belle, Michael Chorney and Dollar General, Brown Bird, Devil Makes Three and many others. Katie was the co-founder of the non-profit folk music school ‘The Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture’ based in Montpelier, VT. She is currently the Executive Director of Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph, Vermont.
“Katie Trautz is representative of many young people playing traditional music today. On (her album) Remembering, she has used the traditional style to establish her own distinctive and lovely repertoire." — TD, Sing Out Magazine
“On her new solo recording, Trautz does her mentor proud and really shines as a vocalist, instrumentalist and songwriter. Her fiddling is full of old-timey swing, her five-string banjo playing leisurely, and her alto voice confident and full of emotion.” –Robert Resnik, VPR

“In the spotlight by herself, Trautz reveals nuance and depth. She approaches singing the way she does the fiddle: with a subdued directness, creating a sound that’s beautiful in its simplicity.” –Dan Bolles, Seven Days Review