KATIE KETCHUM
Katie Ketchum
singer/songwriter/playwright
Katie Ketchum was born in the gold country of California. She sang with her father and grandfather who were both professional musicians.
Intent on becoming a concert pianist, Katie attended the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto Canada. She studied composition with Canada's top composer Dr. Samuel Dolin and piano with Weldon Kilburn a Columbia Recording artist.
After winning many piano competitions sponsored by Her Majesty the Queen of England, Katie decided she would also like to sing songs she had written, so she proceeded to perform concerts throughout the United States and Canada. Her songs were heard by Mother Teresa and played in her rehabilitation centers throughout India and on Canadian television. When Katie sang her songs in the Navajo Nation, audience members hugged her with tears of joy in their eyes.
Katie also started composing musicals about great women in history. Mary Cassatt, Mary Magdalene and Clara Schumann. Magdalene was picked up by the Sacramento Theatre Company for a full 28 show run. Cassatt was invited to many universities and colleges including Boston University and Northwestern. Katie performed Clara Schumann in San Francisco and at the Cranberry Coast Concert Festival in Massachusetts.
Katie has performed at universities, theatre, colleges, cultural centers, concert halls and schools throughout the United States and Canada and has CD sales in many countries including South Africa and India.
You can book Katie performing her transformational songs in concert and her great women in herstory plays by calling 707 874-3571.