UPCOMING SINGLE SONG RELEASE - September 27, 2024
Never Looked So Good to Me Before
Will be available on all streaming formats and at YouTube
Kate MacLeod’s Mind the Gap is a Neo-Traditional Americana band that performs striking original and traditional music. Mind the Gap features award-winning songwriter and instrumentalist Kate MacLeod on fiddle, guitar, and the rare Appalachian lap dulcimer, accompanied by vocalist/guitarist Paul Hammerton, vocalist/bassist John Bryant, and vocalist/mandolinist Matthew Metz.
Kate’s original songs have been recorded by other artists from California to Europe in Bluegrass,
Celtic, and other roots music genres.
Grammy-winning musician Tim O’Brien produced her Blooming recording, and Grammy-winning bluegrass artist Laurie Lewis included one of Kate’s songs on her 2024 recording release.
As stated by SingOut! Magazine, Kate "channels the spirit of the great Carter Family classics.”
She has toured in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland,
Germany, Austria, Italy, and the UK.
In concert, you’ll hear the band’s renditions of classics such as Wildwood Flower, Milwaukee Blues, and some of Kenny Baker's fiddle tunes, along with Kate’s original songs and instrumental pieces.
Where did the band's name come from?
There are a few things that contribute to the band members loving the phrase "mind the gap" enough to use as their calling card. First of all, most people who have traveled are familiar with the phrase "mind the gap" from train station signs and announcements at stations in the UK and other large cities around the world, meaning...watch your step at the gap between the platform ad the train. In addition to that meaning, the phrase in brought up in counseling and therapy sessions, for reminding people to watch out for their important personal issues, and life decisions, that are sometimes dropped due to habit, or overwhelm. The word "gap" is also a charming geological term for a rugged and difficult-to-pass gap between high elevation hills and mountains, common in the region that the band's musicians live and work. The word "gap" is also used used in the stock market, and science. It is a universal concept.