Kate Schutt

Schutt learned to play the guitar as a child and began playing the guitar and writing songs at the age of 11.{{Cite web|url=https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/kateschutt|title=Kate Schutt - biography|last=|first=|date=31 October 2008|website=allaboutjazz.com|publisher=|access-date=September 1, 2016}} She gave first performance when she was 12 and wrote her first song at 13. She studied at The Berklee College of Music and Harvard University.{{Cite web|url=http://howtobeamusicsuccess.com/interview-with-kate-schutt-jazz-artist-and-entrepreneur/|title=Interview with Kate Schutt – Jazz Artist and Entrepreneur - How To Be A Music Success|website=howtobeamusicsuccess.com|access-date=2016-09-01}} In 2002, she had throat surgery and did not perform again until July 2003.{{cite news|url=http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=4722|title=Music: Musician Kate Schutt |last=Shapiro|first=Greg|date=14 April 2004| work=Windy City Times|publisher=Windy City Media Group| accessdate=2008-12-26}} She released a five-song EP, Heart-Shot, in 2004, on which Schutt played a Novax 8-string guitar/bass hybrid for the first time.

She has released two albums, No Love Lost (2007),{{Cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/no-love-lost-kate-schutt-artistshare-review-by-michael-p-gladstone.php|title=Kate Schutt: No Love Lost|last=Jazz|first=All About|website=www.allaboutjazz.com|date=31 October 2008 |access-date=2016-09-01}} and The Telephone Game (2008), through ArtistShare. No Love Lost topped the jazz charts in Canada.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thelivemusicreport.com/received/2007/lailaBoulos/NoLoveLost.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024232407/http://thelivemusicreport.com/received/2007/lailaBoulos/NoLoveLost.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 24, 2007|title=Kate Schutt :: No Love Lost|website=www.thelivemusicreport.com|access-date=2016-09-01}} Schutt was a winner of the jazz category in Session II of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2007.{{cite web|last=| first=| url=http://www.jlsc.com/winners/2007b/winners.php |title= 2007 Grand Prize Winners - Session II|date= |work=John Lennon Songwriting Contest |publisher= |accessdate=2008-12-26}}

In 2009, NPR called her voice “glassily clear and glossily sweet.” https://www.npr.org/artists/106640820/kate-schutt In 2021, American Songwriter called her album Bright Nowhere “illuminating” and “the work that ought to bring her the wider recognition she so decidedly deserves."https://americansongwriter.com/review-with-touching-tales-about-life-and-loss-kate-schutts-bright-nowhere-casts-light-on-a-particularly-sad-scenario/

Winner of the 6th annual Independent Music Awards Vox Pop vote for best Jazz song "Two Halves of a Broken Heart". Schutt's "How Much in Love" was also nominated for the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards for Jazz song of the year. The Philadelphia News calls her "an enticingly languid vocalist, wry composer and sophisticated arranger in the pop/jazz vein." In 2000, Schutt founded her own label, Wild Whip Records.{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wild-whip-records-mn0000382374/credits|title=Wild Whip Records {{!}} Credits {{!}} AllMusic|website=AllMusic|access-date=2016-09-01}} She lived in Guelph, Ontario, Canada from 2004 until 2010,{{Cite web|url=http://thescope.ca/music/open-schutt|title=Open & Schutt {{!}} The Scope|website=thescope.ca|access-date=2016-09-01}} playing and collaborating with Canadian musicians Duane Andrews, Michael Phillip Wojewoda, Andrew McPherson, and the band Gregory Pepper and His Problems.{{cite web|url=http://jlscblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/kate-schutts-stunning-performance.html|title=Kate Schutt's Stunning Performance|last=|first=|date=July 9, 2009|website=jlscblog|publisher=|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.thelivemusicreport.com/2007/August/KateSchutt_aug07.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204004834/http://www.thelivemusicreport.com/2007/August/KateSchutt_aug07.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 4, 2013|title=Kate Schutt and Noel Webb :: 2007 :: The Live Music Report|website=www.thelivemusicreport.com|access-date=2016-09-01}} In 2010, she relocated to Manhattan. Here her collaborators include Julian Lage and Scott Colley. She was a friend of the late guitarist Jim Hall.

Schutt lives in New York City. In November 2019 she delivered a TEDx (conference) talk called, "A grief casserole - how to help your friends and family through loss" about the experience of being her mother's caregiver for nearly five years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_schutt_a_grief_casserole_how_to_help_your_friends_family_through_loss/transcript|title=Transcript of "A grief casserole -- how to help your friends & family through loss | Kate Schutt | TEDxWestChester"|first=Kate|last=Schutt|website=www.ted.com|date=10 December 2018 }}

Winner in the Jazz category of the 2007 Session-II John Lennon Songwriting Contest for the song "How Much In Love" in the Jazz category

ASCAP Plus Award winner 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 in Jazz Composition{{Cite web|url=http://www.harvardwood.org/?HH200703%7Ctitle=Harvardwood |title=Harvardwood |access-date=September 1, 2016}}

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