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"You
will play
like the water rolls,
like the wind gets wild
and the night
grows cold
and heals the ground
and the cracks of day,
comes out like
a ray
of the sun on fire."
© Judith-Kate Friedman
from A Spider's Tale |
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An award-winning vocalist, songwriter, and producer, Judith-Kate Friedman is a creative catalyst. She tours, performs and teaches internationally. In concert, Friedman blends passion, improvisation and tradition with a poet's world view, delivering a powerful and eclectic folk/roots sound. She performs solo and with
her band, drawing diverse audiences into soulful celebrations of heritage, grace, groove and the courage to change. All ages delight in the finely-etched images,
lyric melodies, humor and life-stories in her songs.
A veteran teaching artist, Friedman’s workshops, master classes and artist-in-residencies offer vocalists, actors, dancers and the “creative in everyone” new avenues into authentic expression and the magic of community collaboration.
As founder and director of Songwriting Works™ she has composed songs with
more than 3,000 older and younger adults. Songwriting honors include the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Kerrville New Folk, and the West Coast Songwriters Association, nine California Arts Council grants, a 2009 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to bring the Songwriting Works™ experience to the
Pacific Northwest and the 2008 Sadler/Society for the Arts in Healthcare
International Healing Arts Award.
Judith-Kate has released two critically acclaimed solo CDs, "Count Me In" and
"Bigger Things" and the award-winning "Island on a Hill" project featuring Singers
and Songwriters of the Jewish Home, average age 87, featured in Nathan Friedkin's internationally acclaimed documentary "A 'Specially Wonderful Affair." She is
currently working on two long-awaited recording projects - one of original songs
and one of original and traditional Jewish music. Friedman has also produced
festivals and tribute events, and creates songs and musical works on commission.
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