If the Moon made music, she would sing story-songs like these: mythic, personal, far-sighted. Silvery voice, shimmering piano, and starry support from bass, cello, bodhrn, Irish flute, whistle, and a whisper of harp.

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#		Title	Length	Sample
1		Cafeteria Girl	2:55
2		Stars	4:22
3		Green Wave of Ocean	3:17
4		Diverdrowned	3:11
5		Way the Waves Came	3:21
6		Madcap Taxi Driver	4:56
7		My Mother Goes to Work	3:25
8		The Coldest Room	4:13
9		Wizard's Horse	3:40
10		All Soul's Eve	3:29
11		The Song of Wandering Aengus	3:34
12		A Shade Too Soon!	5:13
13		Medusa's Hands	4:41
14		Come Ashore, Vanderdecken	4:42
15		On a Lark	4:13
16		Making Chocolate	3:27

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About the Songs and the CD, "Kate Chadbourne"
The CD has 16 songs, all of them composed for piano and voice, but some of them embellished with bass guitar, cello, bodhrn, acoustic guitar, vocal harmonies, Irish flute, whistle, and a tiny whisper of harp.

Kate thinks of the songs as "story songs" because nearly all of them are grounded in myth and folktale. Here we find a compassionate Medusa alongside an oracular taxi-driver. Here we encounter Emily Dickinson, Captain Vanderdecken, and Odysseus on his long journey home. Many of the songs flow from the sea where Kate grew up and where her father has spent his working life as a lobsterman. One of them is a setting of Yeats' beautiful poem, "The Song of Wandering Aengus," a poem which is rooted in an early Irish tale but which expresses a longing and mystery familiar to all of us, no matter in which century we find ourselves.

About Kate
Kate is a singer, song-writer, scholar and teacher whose strong interest in myth and folklore has shaped her life and work. She holds a Ph.D. in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard (1999) and has lived and studied one year each in Northern Ireland, Wales, and Ireland. Her dissertation, The Otherworld Procession in Irish and Welsh Literature and Folklore, examined how crossings to the "Otherworld" are imagined and expressed in medieval literature and in modern folk processions through a set of shared symbols and images.

Sharing the wealth of these cultural traditions and exploring their pertinence to our own lives is both a goal and a delight to her. She teaches courses on Irish Language and Folklore, Storytelling, and Celtic Literature at Harvard College and Harvard Extension School. From time to time she serves as a guest lecturer at colleges, societies, conferences, museums, and for tours. Her research has been published in scholarly journals and she is currently at work on a book that picks up where the dissertation left off: White Horse Walks ~ The Horse in Celtic Expression.

Kate's artistic life serves as mirror, source, and inspiration to her scholarly life, and many of the same themes and passions animate both. She composes songs for voice, piano, flute, whistle, and harp, and she also sings Irish traditional songs. She loves to provide improvisatory musical support and reflection for storytellers and dancers. Her music and singing can be heard on four recordings: the newly-released Kate Chadbourne which includes original songs rooted in Greek, Irish, and Maine mythologies; South Wind, a compilation of traditional songs; tan, an Irish-language recording based on an old Irish tale about a woman transformed into a fly; and Bridges, a compilation by Maine singer-songwriters.