Kat Bula: Irreverent Roots/Americana Songwriter

 “Smart, sassy, sensitive… a rare depth and range in an otherwise endless sea of singer/songwriters.” — Cascadia Weekly

“Without reservation, Conversations Over Breakfast is one of the best albums I have heard this year.” —What’s Up! Magazine

If you’ve only seen Kat Bula shredding on fiddle and vocal harmonies behind other artists, you may not realize she’s also a serious songwriter in her own right.  With an irreverent respect for tradition, a poet’s aversion to non-load-bearing lyrics, a fearless imagination and an unapologetically older-millennial sensibility, Kat Bula brings a singular voice to contemporary bluegrass and Americana.

As a side player/band member, Bula has toured extensively with bands ranging from hardline traditional bluegrass and Western swing, to indie rock and metal.  Along the way she’s found opportunities to work with bluegrass legends such as Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick, Molly Tuttle, and Missy Raines; cult-folk icon Jason Webley, Celtic-pop outfit The Clumsy Lovers, and math-rock group Rooftops, to name a few.  When We Get To Shore, her collaboration with Coty Hogue and Aaron Guest, reached #1 on the FOLK-DJ charts and received airplay on BBC and Sirius XM.  She was also a co-writing member of the pirate-themed folk punk humor band Pirates R Us, which reached College Music Journal’s Top 100 and was featured on the legendary Dr. Demento comedy radio show. 

A devoted fiddle teacher, Kat specializes in teaching improvisation and collaboration skills to adults and teenagers.  Through her live workshops, online courses and private lessons, she has worked with hundreds of students across North America and Europe.

Bula is also one of the founding cohort songwriters of the Know Better, Do Better Project, an initiative which has received multiple grants to support the creation of new folk and educational songs as viable alternatives to popular songs rooted in minstrelsy and other problematic traditions.  The project was launched in 2021 via a livestream concert hosted by Boston’s Club Passim, and is still open for new submissions.

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