Music
Kate Conklin sings opera, folk music and original works, and specializes in the highly ornamented vocal music of Bulgaria. She performs to have profound, joyful communication with other beings, exploring the qualities of delicacy and resiliency, wildness and precision. Kate sings in seventeen + languages.
Albums
WIDOW
The second record by vocalist Kate Conklin & banjoist Bryan Landers. A sublime collection of songs from Greece and Macedonia, WIDOW reverberates with sensuality, longing, desire, and desolation.
Mesechinko Ljo (Dear Little Moon)
The debut album from Kate Conklin & Bryan Landers. A collection of voice & banjo duets featuring the intricate melodies, striking harmonies, and complex rhythms of Bulgarian folk music, wildly reimagined. Exquisite vocals soar from anthemic to delicate, intertwining with unprecedented extended banjo techniques evoking orchestra, music boxes, autoharp, and electronic soundscapes.
Projects
Kate Conklin & Bryan Landers
Voice and banjo duo featuring creative recontextualizations of folk music, particularly Bulgarian music. Kate and Bryan have been performing together for 20 years.
Recreational Science
A one-woman opera written for Kate Conklin by Javier Navarrete, with text by Victor Nubla. Recreational Science explores discoveries, curiosities and scientific innovation between the 18th and mid-20th centuries, investigating the euphoria and despair of the scientific process. (Recording in progress.)