NEW RELEASE - SUMMER'S LONESOME TALE

We're thrilled to announce the release of our new CD, "Summer's Lonesome Tale". We had a lot of fun experimenting and creating together for this album, as we have both travelled some new musical paths in the last few years. It is available for secure purchase on our sounds page here.

The year gone by…

This year has been on interesting and somewhat low-key one for us,
as we get ready to record our fourth album.  We were nominated for a Folk Alliance Australia award for Best Folk Act, which took us by surprise; thanks to the FAA for that recognition, we felt very honoured.  We have both been playing a fair amount of music with other acts – Ruth has recently formed a new all-girl Appalachian old-timey band “Dev’lish Mary”, along with Liz Frencham of Jigzag, Sally Taylor of Triskel and Cat Moser of the Beenies; and Kate has toured New Zealand with long-standing trad Irish band Trouble in the Kitchen as well as recording with Aussie folk singers Dave de Hugard and Judy Small.   In between we try to spend what spare time we can playing music together in our kitchens, and the new album is slowly forming as we speak…

Ruth makes the front page of The Australian!!

Tuesday November 14 found our own Ruth Hazleton’s photo gracing the front page of the Australian newspaper, alongside Steve Bracks, Bob Hawke and George Bush.  The Australian’s arts journalist Lynden Barber published an article on “Why folk music is cool again”, and Ruth is now the Face of Australian Folk.  Says Barber, “Hazleton is one of a new generation of gifted Australian performers bringing traditional and original Australian songs to appreciative younger audiences.” The article compares Kate & Ruth with the likes of Joanna Newsom, M. Ward and Kate Rusby, and says of Kate’s “Song for Reconciliation”: “What might have been empty sloganeering becomes, in these hands, an achingly melancholic political lament capable of moving the listener to tears”.  Ruth gave big props to the Melbourne and Aussie folk scenes and was just a little shocked to find that the photo accompanying the article took up about a third of the page.  You can’t really blame them… she is a bit of a spunk.