Kat Wright at the Kate July 24

Press release

OLD SAYBROOK, CT - The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, “the Kate”, welcomes Kat Wright on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 7:30 pm.

After touring for the last decade as a 7 to 9-piece soul band with horns and keys blazing, this new era finds Kat Wright being born anew - more herself than ever - revealed, simply in a startlingly honest and glimmering naked light. With restrictions imposed by the pandemic, Wright and her cohorts came to enjoy writing and touring in a stripped down formation, mostly trio or quartet, in contrast to the big band she fronted for the better part of the last decade where she was described as “a young Bonnie Raitt meets Amy Winehouse”.

Fans of Wright’s singing and style have been thrilled to discover this paired down line-up which puts the groups true talents front and center to shine, instead of drenching them in horns and fanfare. You’ll still hear the Raitt and Winehouse influences, but now also likenesses with Brandi Carlisle and Norah Jones. The resulting music is more intentional, more distilled, more potent. It’s truly a scenario of “less is more” - allowing Wright’s voice to really finally take center stage, to shine and ache and yearn and howl - unburied, out in the open, beaming.

For information and tickets, visit www.thekate.org or call 860-510-0453.