As a young adult, she suffered through two years of music school, quit, and retained little to none of the information that was imparted to her there. She joined a rock band…then a funk band, then another funk band and then a trance outfit. Many years later, she formed a jazz combo, and with the guidance of some of Toronto’s most renowned, skilled and patient Jazz makers, she came into her own, musically speaking, and finally learned how to be a real musician.

Jazz is not Katey’s genre, though it has been close by since 7th grade Jazz choir. It makes an appearance in her melodies and chord structures, but it has no authority in her writing. Folk is not Katey’s genre either, though you can hear it in her voice, and the rawness of her music. Pop is not Katey’s genre, though she loves a hook as much as the next guy, and knows where to place them in her tunes. Rock, well, who doesn’t love a fat lick and doing the splitz while strumming hotly on an air-guitar? Jazz, Folk, Pop, Rock—they’re in her blood, and in her music, but Katey’s sound is all her own…. just not in a pretentious way.

Katey’s forthcoming album “Heart Full of Thumbs" is co-produced by Duncan Coutts, of Our Lady Peace, and Scott Curry (Emily Haines), and it features some of Toronto’s awesomest guest musicians: Jeremy Taggart (OLP), Maury Lefoy (Jann Arden/Ron Sexsmith), Dafydd Hughes (Feist/EATT), Jody Brumell (Zepplinesque) to name but a few. A special guest appearance by Garth Hudson of The Band is the cherry on top of a musically delicious debut solo effort. ”Heart Full of Thumbs” will be available Spring 2010.