Audra Kubat

Detroit folk artist Audra Kubat is a Force. Not like a military force. More like a force of nature. A strong wind that blows past and transcends fads. A flower that’s blossomed from coffeehouse gigs into larger theater and festival performances.

Audra wears her influences—Joni, Miles, Billie, and Nick Drake like a coat of many colors rewoven into a "ruggedly pretty" and haunting style all her own. It’s a talent that's earned her a loyal following, airtime, stellar reviews in local and national press and 10 Detroit Music Awards nominations including a win for Outstanding Folk Artist 2001.

Audra's played Detroit's best venues, as well as gigs in galleries and bars from Chicago to New York to Tennessee and back. Forces, by definition, move. From her post as front woman in the eclectic rock band Stunning Amazon, she moved on and released two solo albums with a bold and perhaps unexpected choice of production men. Her solo debut, 2000's "Elixir" and 2002's "Untitled for Now" were produced by Al Sutton (Detroit Cobras) and Mike E. Clark (seminal garage/punk—The Gories and Primal Scream) respectively. Both prove her to be an acoustic artist capable of cresting toward the harder edge of the shore.

Audra's force is centrifugal, spinning out from its singer/songwriter center into a myriad of other talents. Whether she's modeling for designers (Camillo Padro, Zaim), displaying art work at some of Detroit's hippest art galleries, providing soundtrack work or opening for Sponge performing a burlesque number, she’s a well respected artist.

2003's annually held "Tastefest", a city event, which typically includes 50 performing acts invited Audra and her manager to debut a new stage which included 20 local solo artists. Under the thoughtful direction of perennial Detroit scenester and trend-spotter Stirling, who boasts thirty plus years in the music business, mostly rock 'n' roll, Audra thrives. Between the two, there’s not much they can’t do. National Press, Radio, T.V., the time is ripe.

Audra's new CD, "Million Year Old Sand" is the latest step in her musical evolution. Recorded as a cooperative effort between Audra and Gold Cash Gold's Eric Hoegemeyer, it illustrates what can happen when two unique artists from different musical camps put their hearts and souls into one project. Organic, ethereal, mysterious, healing, quiet yet powerful with bare yet imaginative production, "Sand" is a truly inspired record that will appeal to rock and acoustic music fans alike.