Kate Hinote Trio
Kate Hinote Trio LIVE in Midland
Mi Element Grains and Grounds
3124 Jefferson Ave
Midland, MI 48640
Free admission
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The Kate Hinote Trio can't wait to get back to Mi Element grains & grounds to close out our 2025 tour season with a special evening show in this wonderful space! Please join us for this special event!
The Kate Hinote Trio is:
Kate Hinote / Vocals
Matthew Parmenter / Violin
David Johnson / Acoustic Guitar
The Kate Hinote Trio is a contemporary folk ensemble rooted in storytelling, rich melodies, and an unmistakable chemistry between its members. Led by vocalist and songwriter Kate Hinote, the trio features guitarist David Johnson (her longtime bandmate from The Blueflowers) and violinist Matthew Parmenter (of art-rock band Discipline). Together, they create an acoustic sound that is both finely crafted and refreshingly human — where the lines between folk, chamber pop, and indie songcraft gently blur.
Their second album, Stowaways (out June 2025), showcases the trio’s evolution with ten original songs that lean into narrative-driven songwriting. The heart of their music lies in the dynamic between Hinote’s clear, expressive vocals and Parmenter’s violin, which often takes on the role of a second voice — playful, tender, or teasing — adding emotional depth and dialogue to every song. Johnson’s warm and intuitive guitar work anchors the arrangements, giving each story the space it needs to unfold.
Known for their engaging live performances, the Kate Hinote Trio mixes original material with a curated selection of modern and retro covers — including tributes to fellow Detroit songwriters — offering something familiar, something unexpected, and something uniquely theirs.
Over the past five years, the trio has brought their music to stages across Michigan, Ohio, New York, West Virginia, and Kentucky, including a featured appearance on NPR/PRX’s Red Barn Radio from WEKU in Lexington, KY.
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Kate Hinote Trio Biography
The Kate Hinote Trio is:
Kate Hinote / Vocals
Matthew Parmenter / Violin
David Johnson / Acoustic Guitar
Kate Hinote is an award-nominated Detroit singer and songwriter performing predominantly original material she has co-written for her various projects, including Alt-Rock band, The Blueflowers, which she has been fronting for over a decade. Hinote has a voice that’s both cinematic and operatic, a mood-setting, mellifluous intonation that fits inside candle-lit lounges, late summer night feverdreams, or as a torch song from a surreal soundtrack.
The Kate Hinote Trio is a contemporary folk ensemble and features Hinote’s longtime Blueflowers bandmate, David Johnson, on guitar and Matthew Parmenter (Discipline) on violin. John Sinkevics of Local Spins and WYCE in Grand Rapids, MI, describes the trio as a “new indie-folk/prog-folk trio which manages to not only retain and showcase Hinote’s haunting, mesmerizing vocals but centers them in a fetching, gorgeously arranged acoustic pillow.”
In addition to performing original material written by both Hinote and Parmenter, individually and collaboratively, the Trio performs select modern and retro covers, including a handful of songs by other Detroit-based songwriters. Those songs are among those featured on their debut album, Near, recorded at Tempermill Studios in Ferndale, MI and released in March 2021. Near provides an introduction to the Trio’s live sound, combining brooding, intimate and reflective moments, with drama that arrests one’s attention.
Thriving on the excitement of performing live to connect with long-time friends and new listeners, the Kate Hinote Trio has played over 100 shows at venues and festivals throughout Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, New York and West Virginia, among them an hour-long broadcast performance and interview at the NPR/PRX syndicated program “Red Barn Radio” out of WEKU in Lexington, KY. With a creative fire burning, and new material in the works, the Trio pushes full steam ahead towards a second album and expanding their playing radius further to surprise more audiences with their unique sound and intricately arranged songs. https://katehinote.com/katehinotetrio
Read MoreKate Hinote / Vocals
Matthew Parmenter / Violin
David Johnson / Acoustic Guitar
Kate Hinote is an award-nominated Detroit singer and songwriter performing predominantly original material she has co-written for her various projects, including Alt-Rock band, The Blueflowers, which she has been fronting for over a decade. Hinote has a voice that’s both cinematic and operatic, a mood-setting, mellifluous intonation that fits inside candle-lit lounges, late summer night feverdreams, or as a torch song from a surreal soundtrack.
The Kate Hinote Trio is a contemporary folk ensemble and features Hinote’s longtime Blueflowers bandmate, David Johnson, on guitar and Matthew Parmenter (Discipline) on violin. John Sinkevics of Local Spins and WYCE in Grand Rapids, MI, describes the trio as a “new indie-folk/prog-folk trio which manages to not only retain and showcase Hinote’s haunting, mesmerizing vocals but centers them in a fetching, gorgeously arranged acoustic pillow.”
In addition to performing original material written by both Hinote and Parmenter, individually and collaboratively, the Trio performs select modern and retro covers, including a handful of songs by other Detroit-based songwriters. Those songs are among those featured on their debut album, Near, recorded at Tempermill Studios in Ferndale, MI and released in March 2021. Near provides an introduction to the Trio’s live sound, combining brooding, intimate and reflective moments, with drama that arrests one’s attention.
Thriving on the excitement of performing live to connect with long-time friends and new listeners, the Kate Hinote Trio has played over 100 shows at venues and festivals throughout Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, New York and West Virginia, among them an hour-long broadcast performance and interview at the NPR/PRX syndicated program “Red Barn Radio” out of WEKU in Lexington, KY. With a creative fire burning, and new material in the works, the Trio pushes full steam ahead towards a second album and expanding their playing radius further to surprise more audiences with their unique sound and intricately arranged songs. https://katehinote.com/katehinotetrio
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