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Tracy K Tickets, Tour Dates and Concerts

Tracy K

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Jul 27, 2018

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Tracy K Biography

With her Jolin-esque voice and hot harmonica playing, the talents of Tracy K have been winning audience’s hearts for years. From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Tracy K tours as an acoustic duo or band for festivals and events from Canada to the Caribbean. She has collected awards as a vocalist, harmonica player, songwriter, performer and twice as an International Blues Challenge quarter finalist. The Western Canadian Music Awards has nominated Tracy K as Blues Artist of the Year 2018.

‘What’s the Rush?’, Tracy K’s fourth studio album, was released in September 2016, and truly reflects her depth of talent, uninhibited soulful passion, and appetite for storytelling. ‘What’s the Rush?’ reached number one on Canadian Roots Radio, charting for several months. With vocals reminiscent of songstresses like Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin, Tracy K effortlessly delivers moodful melodies laced with that unmistakable bluesy groove. Impressive reviews amassed from Europe, USA and Canada. Listen closely, and you’ll discover an honesty and authenticity in musicianship and lyricism that can be acquired only from a lifetime of living.

Tracy K began indelibly stamping her versatility on the Canadian music scene in the late 1980s in Toronto, utilizing her outstanding vocal harmonizing skills in live and studio session work. Apparently she wasn’t in a rush back then, either, because it took her until 2000 to release her own album, all original. She began to tour Canada and USA clubs, blues, jazz and folk festivals, theatre concerts, women-in-blues events, honing her craft and sharing the stage with A-list international blues performers. Her songwriting catalogue boasts a song for a movie and two International Songwriting Competition Award Winning songs.

Tracy K’s recording career continued in 2007 with the release of a second album, the award garnering ‘Old, New, Borrowed & Blues’, and then the five-starred acoustic duo album Canned Heat in 2011. In 2014, she was the sole Canadian included on Ruf Records Blues Harp Women compilation album, and Mary4Music's Keeping the Blues Alive: Volume Six. She won regional competitions to represent Thunder Bay at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee as a band in 2013 and duo in 2014, and was invited to return to Memphis in 2015 as one of the judges. While there, she was asked to arrange harmonies on a song for a fellow bluesman at Ardent Studios and had some fun recording at the infamous Sun Studios.

Unknown to locals at the inaugural Thunder Bay Blues Festival in 2002, Tracy K was an instant hit and was invited back for an encore in 2003. She moved to Thunder Bay in 2004, where she became a positive force impacting the local music community. She created and hosted a weekly Sunday Night Blues Jam at the local Legion, and also performed as a member of tribute troupe Thunder Bay Legends, posing as Janis Joplin, Ronnie Spector, Bobby Gentry and Brenda Lee. Tracy K has enjoyed the distinct honour of performing two concerts with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra in full diva glory.

Tracy K approaches her music the same way she approaches life: in a go-with-the-flow kind of way. Because if there’s something she has learned in 50+ years of living, and 30+ years of making music, it’s that things don’t always go as planned. Life happens. Kids happen. Marriage and divorce happens. Serious illness happens. Yet, she remains as cool as the blues that colour her world; laidback like the tranquil countryside that stirs her spirit. Proving that for Tracy K, there is still a lot of life-after-life waiting to happen.

Among her personal reinventions is her own contemporary blues band, wherein she likes to kick it up notch with her trademark amplified harmonica, and test the limits of her vocal prowess. She also performs in an acoustic blues duo with partner Jamie “Snakeman” Steinhoff, whose mastery of acoustic, Dobro and lap steel guitar is derived from a well-informed history of early blues and folk. They have performed several folk festivals and are scheduled on a Home Routes Tour in 2018.

When not performing, you might find these two selling 'Tracy K's Stolen Apple Jelly' (find the song on the duo release) alongside her CDs at the farmer’s market near her quiet country home in Manitoba. And you just might be lucky enough to hear them belt out a blues tune or two. Because that’s just the way Tracy K rolls these days, same way she always has: going with the flow, seizing the moment, and living every incarnation of life to the fullest.

Yes, there’s still a lot of life-after-life waiting for Tracy K. And she’s still not in a rush to get there.

AWARDS:

International Blues Challenge – Regional Winner, Memphis Quarter Finalist, Band 2014
International Blues Challenge – Regional Winner, Memphis Quarter Finalist, Duo 2013
International Songwriting Competition – Blues Award 2007
International Songwriting Competition – Performance Hon. Mention 2007
Ontario Independent Music Award – Best Blues Song 2007
Toronto Blues Society Talent Search – First Runner-Up 2007
Winnipeg Blues.com – Harmonica Player of the Year 2006
Winnipeg Blues.com – Female Vocalist of the Year 2006
Winnipeg Blues.com – Electric Act of the Year – Nomination 2006

PAST PERFORMANCES (SELECT LIST - Full List on website calendar):

Trout Forest,MB, Fargo Bluesfest,ND, Blues on the Red,ND, Santiago Shakedown,MN (2017)
Winnipeg BBQ & Bluesfest (2012,14,16)
Winnipeg Jazz Festival (1999 - 2005 inclusive)
Saskatchewan Mid-Winter Blues Festival, Regina/Saskatoon, (2005,08,15)
Women’s Blues Fest Minneapolis (2003)
Live from the Rock Music Festival, Red Rock, Ont. (2003,06,09,12,14)
Thunder Bay Blues Festival (2002, 03, 05, 08, 11, 13, 14)
Great Woods Music Festival, Beausejour, MB (1998-2003 inclusive)
Toronto Blues Society's Harmonica Workshop (2003)
Women's Blues Revue – Toronto ON (2002)
Women In Blues International Showcase - Memphis Tennessee (2013,14,15)
Fed Ex International Showcase - International Blues Challenge, Memphis Tennessee (2014)

ALBUM RELEASES:

What’s the Rush (2016)
Canned Heat (2011)
Old, New, Borrowed & Blues (2007)
Welcome to my Fantasy (2000)

COMPILATIONS:

Blues Harp Women – Ruf Records (2015)
Keeping the Blues Alive Vol.6 – Mary4Music (2014)

SINGLES:

Science of Being Distant – CBC Radio One Bandwidth
3 Singles for Prairie Fire Project – Canadian Diabetes Foundation (2003)
Rock This House – licensed to Zernick Von-Sertner Films, L.A. (2002)

QUOTES:

"This is outdoor-festival music, tailor-made for a big stage and (even) bigger crowd." - Rainey Wetnight, Blues Blast Magazine, 2017

“A proponent of the Winnipeg music scene, this hard driver has no aspirations to be Janis or Bonnie Raitt, she’s simply a blues-rocking babe that knows how to bring the awards home.” - The Midwest Record, 2017

"What’s The Rush? has grit and soul, and is rough around the edges in just the right places. As a singer Tracy K is like Bonnie Raitt and Koko Taylor, and she blows some of the best blues harp this side of Little Walter. Production at Winnipeg’s award winning Bedside Studios by Len Milne is perfect - rowdy, deep and intimate. Throwing this on is like walking into the middle of the best party ever. Stunning." 5+ rating - Gonzo Okanagan Music Reviews, 2016

Canadian "mojo mama" Tracy K has been around the proverbial block; while What’s The Rush? is just her fourth album, it feels like the work of a case-hardened musical veteran. Ms. K gets her personal stories across with style. The engineering by Len Milne at Winnipeg’s Bedside Studios is razor-sharp: it's obvious she and her compadres didn’t rush through these tracks, but instead gave them enough attention to make the grade. - Jeff Monk, Winnipeg Free Press, 2016

"There’s only eight tracks here but I’d rather have quality than a CD stuffed full of filler so this works a treat. She has a very listenable voice and there is an insistent groove to her music that works really well. Also, she can blow a mean mouth harp." - the Rocker UK, 2016

"This lady has more than thirty years of music experience and that is evident. The songs are well-written and well-considered, each of them are little stories. And they are all wrapped in beautiful blues and boogie." - BarnowlBlues, NL, 2016

“…a powerful and rich vocalist and a harmonica player of the highest order… Navigating between folk blues, pure juicy blues and blues that is tinged with pop, Tracy K pulls no punches.” - Zicazine, 2016

"Tracy K effortlessly delivers moodfull and melodic songs and is blessed with a heavenly beautiful and lovely voice. With a certain brute force she tempers her timbre, but displays a presumptive vulnerability. She is also a very talented harp virtuoso." (translated) - Keys and Chords, 2016

"Next to her beautiful voice, she is also a gifted harmonica player. It is easy to understand that Tracy K must have a large and loyal fan base in her home country, with Europe and the rest of the world to follow very soon." (translated) - Rudolf’s Music 2016

"Her harsh and raspy vocals and 'smokey' style of harmonica playing just fascinates, and the accompanying musicians created original musical expression, deeply engraved feelings and atmosphere of the best traditional blues, and urban blues in general. This completely justifies all the saliva glistening assessment made by numerous music critics." - Soundguardian, Mladen Loncar, 2016
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