A modern jazz cover of The Beatles' Blackbird, recorded by the MacEwan Fusion Combo on Monday March 18, 2014.

Hope you enjoy it! :)

Blackbird Cover (MacEwan Fusion Combo)

This is a rough mix of an arrangement I wrote for the MacEwan Jazz Combo in January 2015.  

Recorded February 11, 2015 at MacEwan Recording Studio.

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

Hey everyone!  

This weekend I got together with an awesome group of musicians known as The Seven Seas and did some back-up harmonies on their cover of Iron & Wine's "The Trapeze Swinger".  As I used to play bass for this band, they are all close friends of mine, not to mention a fun group to collaborate with!

Here it is- live from the band basement!  Hope you enjoy! 

For more info on this rad band, facebook "The Seven Seas" or check out their YouTube videos from their backyard concert!

The Trapeze Swinger - The Seven Seas

Broken Social Scene cover live from a Wenger practice studio at my school!  

It's rough, but I thought I'd post it anyways.  BSS was one of the first bands that really made me care about music in a big way.  I saw them in 2006 at the Calgary Folk Festival, when I was 13 years old, and I was immediately addicted.  It was the summer before I started high school, and I was nervous about what the future would hold.  But for that one night, it was like time stretched and music was infinite, life eternal.  Sometimes time stops in a similar way in the practice wengers at my school!

So, I thought I'd record this song because I really love it and the chords are pretty easy (please excuse my piano playing as it's rather basic)!

Definitely could use more vocals - but I still think it's pretty nifty. 

I hope you enjoy it! 

When I get time, I'd love to re-record and get some harmonies and bowed upright bass going on!

Lover's Spit (BSS cover)

mumford & sons cover!

I heard this song a while ago and fell in love with it!

I intend to eventually record this while singing with my upright bass - hopefully over christmas! :)

anyways, hope you folks enjoy!

lover's eyes

What I do when I'm alone with a piano on a friday night!

the wenger sessions!

I really love this band/this song.  Please don't make fun of my remedial piano skills.  I'm trying to work on them! :)

Have a fabulous weekend!

p.s.- this picture has nothing to do with this song at all haha!

poison and wine (the civil wars cover)

Song: Your Ex-Lover is Dead by Stars!

If you haven't heard the original - look it up!  And also look up the Final Fantasy cover.  They're both magical!

This is how a singer procrastinates haha.  I love to harmonize with people, and when no one's around, I just harmonize with myself for fun! :)

Your Ex-Lover is Dead (Stars) - Partial

looping can be cathartic!

kind of reminds me of heartbeats

this is really just a rough idea which spawned from experiments with a korg keyboard 

hope you enjoy!

boredom experiments

this is what I do when juries are over!  

just playing around with harms and piano - forgive my remedial 'skills'



Skinny love (rough Bon Iver cover stuff)

Piano reunion!  

I'm home for the summer, and this is a byproduct of my currently unemployment and obsession with this song!  

I'm hoping to add some upright bass in here later, but for now, I hope you enjoy!

Cheers,

K!

Twice (Little Dragon cover)

I dream up harmonies in my free time! (They get a little wonky in some places, particularly in my attempted bassline haha but ah well!)

Inspired by a daydream of a hippie lady/free spirited woman!

Hope you enjoy!  

in the sun

I saw a wonderful Canadian folk artist by the name of Corinna Rose this summer at a folk fest in Saskatchewan, and since I had kind of a bleh day today, I decided to jam one of her tunes in a wenger!

Hope you enjoy!  It's a little rough around the edges!

Green Mountain State (Corinna Rose Cover)

Contact info: kate.blechinger@gmail.com

Hi!

I'm a vocalist, pianist, and upright bassist from Regina, Saskatchewan.  I love performing, listening to music, attempting to write music, experiencing live music (especially at concerts and folk music festivals), and singing/harmonizing!

I have a variety of influences, mainly Joni Mitchell, Feist, Emily Haines, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, The Acorn, and Sufjan Stevens!

I basically love everything to do with music, and want to know as much about it as I possibly can!  



kateblechinger