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SUMMARY:Kate McDonnell
LOCATION:829 E. Porter Ave\, Naperville\, IL 60540
DESCRIPTION:SINGER-SONGWRITER-GUITARIST Kate McDonnell has captivated audiences all over the world with her award-winning songwriting\, her unusual deft guitar style\, and her jaw-dropping voice. Her introduction to folk music was conventional\, if precocious as a four-year-old\, she heard a Joan Baez album in her mother’s collection. Her reaction was somewhat less conventional: she picked up her mom’s guitar\, taller than she was\, and started to teach herself how to play the instrument\, strung for a right-handed player\, left-handed 'upside down and backwards\,' using her stronger right hand for chording and ignoring the customary positioning of the guitar strings. Eventually\, Kate realized that the guitar could be more than background padding\, she started to listen to Leo Kottke\, Mason Williams\, Steve Howe\, and others. At 16\, a Baltimore-area guitarist and luthier Ken Dubourg taught Kate to play Duane Allman's Little Martha\, and her skies opened. Not a surprise\, given that Kate comes from generations of musicians on both sides: her maternal grandfather (trumpet) and great grandfather (trombone and viola) performed with the National and Baltimore Symphonies. Kate's father sang in  operettas in his younger years\, and her mother continues to play anything she can hear on the piano in F#\, just as her own mother did. All three of Kate's siblings have the musical gift\, so at any given night around the dinner table\, they were bound to break into song. 
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