The Kate de Freitas Band
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Kate de Freitas originally trained as an actress but found herself working predominantly in musical theatre. She has sung before Sir Cameron MacKintosh, Sir John Mills, and Academy award winning director Sam Mendes.
Recently
Kate has found herself drawn to the freedom and creativity found in the
world of jazz and blues where she has shared a stage with fantastic
musicians such as Jamie Cullum who calls her "A proper lady singer!"
She has written and performed her own songs with Yosi Marshall's sax band Momentum at the Bulls Head in Barnes and such was the success of their first gig there they have been invited back on 22nd November. They are currently working on their second album.
Kate has just returned from Edinburgh where she sang with Fat Sams band, a jive swing 9 piece band. She is influenced by Louis Prima, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Imelda May, Caro Emerald, Eva Cassidy, Elvis, Nouvelle Vague and Stevie Wonder.
Come and hear us.....
See where you can hear us next at our Upcoming Events page and in the meantime click on the songs below to give you more of an idea of who we are and
what we do.
News
I'm very starstruck about playing support for Dana with blues man Slim Estrada himself who is so versatile and talented it should be illegal!!
A real mixture of soulful jazz blues, rhythm & blues and rockerbilly blues! I'm told it's a dress up put on your dancing shoes and fluff your petticoats gig....
for more information about buying tickets at the cheaper advance price and to find our about other gigs at this venue see
Really excited about our upcoming Blues gig with blues man Slim Estrada himself on keys, supremely talented Spiros Karagkounis on guitar,cool bluesy Alex Cormley on double bass and the wonderfully creative Roberto Bergamin on drums.
Same gang back to do our rockerbilly night, bit of Elvis, lots of Imelda May, Caro Emerald. Eddie Cochran etc. etc.
I had a fantastic time singing with the fabulous Fat Sam's band at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival and in the beautiful Spiegeltent at the North Berwick on Sea Festival. We were looked after so well by the lovely people there and the audience looked like they were having a whale of a time! Fat Sam's band has played all over the world not surpisingly as they are such a charismatic band-hope I get to go to go to Las Vegas with them next time! Eddie Reader played the night after us hope she had as much fun.
Kate gives singing lessons in Jazz, pop/rock and musical theatre to adults and children.Contact her on 07787113785 or email christiekate@sky.com for more information.
