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10/04 Thursday

8:00 PM Kate Schutt/Duane Andrews

$8

Miss Kate’s very first guitar teacher made her play jazz standards over
and under when she was eleven years old, even though what she liked to
listen to on her boom box at home was Tina Turner and Rickie Lee Jones.
Kate’s debut studio album, No Love Lost, reflects these early days. She
has written new jazz standards with persuasive arrangements and
melodies that you might think you’ve heard all your life. Lyrically, No
Love Lost is poetic and on-point. Kate is at home, with her high and
dry voice, singing jazz and a bit of the blues. Sometimes she sneaks
out to flirt with pop gestures and attitudes.

Kate plays a Novax 8-string, the instrument made famous by jazzer
Charlie Hunter. The Novax has five guitar strings and three bass
strings, and the way it swings is satisfying. Kate is a shy child of
Pennsylvania, a Harvard graduate and Berklee alum, and since 2005 a
resident of what is known as the “Royal City,” Guelph, Ontario, Canada,
an hour outside Toronto.