KC Groves

Infobox musical artist
Name = KC Groves
Background = solo_singer

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Img_capt = At MerleFest 2007, Photo by Forrest L. Smith, III
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Born = Birth date and age|1971|15|15|df=yes
Origin = Dearborn, Michigan
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Instrument = Mandolin, Guitar, Vocals
Genre = Americana
Bluegrass
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URL = [http://www.kcgroves.com/ KC Groves' website]

Katherine "KC" Groves (born March 15, 1971) is an American mandolin player and singer specializing in old-time music and bluegrass. She grew up in Dearborn and Northville, Michigan and lives now in Lyons, Colorado. Coming from a musical family, her father is a singer and a country yodeler, she had piano lessons at the age of six, though she hated themcite web | title=Uncle Earl Website | work=Uncle Earl | url=http://www.uncleearl.net/Old_Lyons_Recorder_Article.htm | accessdate = 2007-10-29] .

In the early 1990s she began playing guitar, writing songs, and learning mandolin cite web | title=Review on cd baby | work=CD Baby | url=http://cdbaby.com/cd/kcgroves | accessdate = 2007-10-29] . Soon she established herself in the Ann Arbor/Detroit alternative music scene.. In 1999, she released her first CD, "Can You Hear It", produced by Charles Sawtelle, and won the Detroit Music Award for Best Bluegrass Artist/Group.cite web | title=Review on Elderly Instruments | work=Elderly Instruments | url=http://www.elderly.com/events/1999/event_page?eid=25 | accessdate = 2007-10-29] .

Together with Jo Serrapere she founded the old-time music band Uncle Earl.

Her second solo CD, "Something Familiar" has been released in 2004.

Discography

Can You Hear It

1999 (One Man Clapping Records)

# Can You Hear It?/Lost Indian
# Peach Pie
# New Mexico
# Little Sky
# You Think We're Friends
# Pony Days
# When the Wind Blows Free
# Hold On
# Weedin' Onions
# I'll Take You in My Arms
# Bad Boy Blues
# And the World Turns Around

omething Familiar

2004 (KC Groves)

# Snapshots of a Life
# Thinking in Terms
# Denver to Telluride
# Heidi
# Soft Complaint
# Something That Happens
# Keep on Lookin'
# Just Like the Snow
# Song in My Heart
# What Went Wrong
# St. Vrain Waltz

External links

* [http://www.kcgroves.com/ KC Groves' website]

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