Produced by Scott Smith at The Wood and Stone Room. The songs are indeed dreamlike, and at once melancholy and hopeful, adorned with electric (Scott Smith) and acoustic guitars (Katrina Kadoski), cello (Jen Smith) and stunning harmonies in support of Katrina’s
disarmingly pure and honest voice.
Katrina met the Smiths ten years ago at a songwriting
retreat in Alaska and recently they regrouped to record 'Dreamtime', and traveled to perform together from Tofino to Vancouver. It is a long and far odyssey from Alaska, to Baltimore, to Vancouver Island, and over ten years in the making.
With the release of
'Dreamtime', Katrina Kadoski hopes to open hearts and console with haunting songs of comfort. “This album is like a hot chocolate on a stormy night. It is rich, dark and warm. It encompasses both the storm and the sweetness", says Kadoski. Of course, it is also about a
journey, both personal and linear.
Originally from Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, Katrina was awarded music scholarships from a young age. Shaping her performance craft with plays, choirs, workshops, music programs, and competitions, she has also become a skilled guitarist and songwriter. Her
versatile and powerful voice has been developed over years of classical and contemporary vocal training and recording.
One of her biggest transitions as a person and a musician came in 2007 when she spent three years in an off-the-grid historical homestead /garden located 33 miles North of
Tofino. "I had all this time in complete wilderness to dedicate to my craft and listen to my soul... and that changes you," she says. While there Kadoski created her most recognized show, "Cougar Annie Tales”, a critically acclaimed one-woman musical drama, telling the
wild life story of the trapper-pioneer-settler woman who homesteaded in the rainforest bog. It won Pick of the Fringe, was a Victoria Critics Choice nominee for “Best New Play.”
Katrina has played to many sold-out audiences around British Columbia.“Music has been a huge part of my life, I grew up listening to my grandmother sing, play fiddle, and accordion,
and my father play guitar. I‘ve studied music, written songs, and been on stage since I was a kid.” She knows who she is and her unique style of indie-folk-pop displays her
practiced voice yet reveals a raw edge to engage listeners and guide them through the threshold of healing. "Some of the songs are very personal reflections of people I am in close relationships with. Others are about my inspirations from digging into the cave of the
heart and imagining the boundlessness of the soul", she says.
In the last few years Katrina has created and performed live music in conjunction with new works of theatre. Companies include William Head On Stage (W.H.O.S. - a theatre company
inside a men's prison). Here; A Captive Odyssey(2015), Fractured Fables(2014), and Time
Waits for No-one; A Prison Play (2013). She also collaborated with Kate Rubin's advanced teen drama school for the productions Metamorphosis (2013), Photophobia(2014), and I
have seen Beautiful Jim Key – by Janet Munsil. She currently performs and records music with her band The Edgedwellers and is writing a new multi-media musical fantasy play called The Shadow Fog.
Driven by her love for being onstage, Kadoski has performed for many sold-out audiences around British Columbia. She has
also toured in other places across Canada as well as the United States, Ireland and England. Her goal has always been to help audiences connect with their hearts and develop courage and willingness to do powerful healing....more
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