Charlottesville, Virginia-based songwriter
Biography
Kate Bollinger grew up singing with her mom, a music therapist, and following her brothers around as they worked on musical projects in the basement. She first began releasing self-recorded songs on Soundcloud in 2013 and began playing shows around Charlottesville shortly thereafter. In October of 2017 she released her first official EP, “KEY WEST,” on Bandcamp with recording engineer, Todd Erk and musicians, Jay Purdy, Matt Gibson, and Mike Harkness, from Philly-based band, The Extraordinaires.
In 2018, Bollinger came into contact with recording engineer and producer, John Trainum, with whom she released her 2-song EP, “Dreams Before,” and a slew of indie-folk-pop singles. From there, she experimented with writing and recording vocals over Trainum’s beats, taking inspiration from a plethora of genres, including folk, hip-hop, country, and R&B, to create an amalgamation that cannot be confined to just one genre. Together, they paired with multi-instrumentalist and producer, John Wehmeyer, and released the collaborative tracks, “do u go out together?” and "Tests."
Bollinger continues to work with Trainum
and has plans to release her EP, “I Don’t Wanna Lose” in 2019 with her backing band, which is made up of Richmond, Virginia jazz musicians.