Katy Wehr Biography
Music is a communal art and Katy Wehr's new album, In Others' Words, explores the idea of music as conversation. By creating story songs from someone else's perspective or setting someone else's words to music, Katy continues discussions ranging from innocence to experience, from misplaced expectations to reality, from doubt to trust. She invites you to join the conversation.
Growing up along the banks of the Minnehaha Creek near Minneapolis, MN, USA, Katy found lots to sing about. She took every opportunity she could to sing: church and school choirs, endless hours with her siblings around the pianola, musical theatre or just harmonizing with mom in the kitchen. She studied theatre at Bethel University while singing in the College and Chamber Choirs and leading chapel music.
After several years in a band called Porch Light, Katy moved to Vancouver, BC in 2003 for a Christianity and the Arts masters program at Regent College. The ocean, mountains and nostalgia for her native lakes and woods filled her music with vivid landscapes. These became the backdrop for The Smell of Rain (released March 2005), a group of songs searching for a sense of home in the midst of struggle and resolution.
Katy's music has been featured on numerous radio shows and podcasts across the US and Europe including BBC Northern Ireland's Rhythm and Soul, BBC Southern Counties' The Sunday Breakfast Show, National Public Radio's Women in Music with Laney Goodman and Public Radio in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Carolina, New York, Washington and California. The song "Minnehaha" from The Smell of Rain has also been used as daily theme music for The Hugh Hewitt Show (nationally syndicated talk radio) since November of 2005.
Currently, Katy is living in Cambridge, England where she works at the Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life at Ridley Hall and is studying at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies. She is enjoying learning more about Byzantine and Russian liturgical music!
KATY WEHR'S CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
(stuff she likes and is connected to)
- Logosdor- Creative Children's Resources, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Church of the Cross- Hopkins, MN, USA
- Max7.org- Worldwide FREE Children's Resources- check out the Movie "AIM LOWER"
- Regent College, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- KidsGames.com-International Sports Program for Kids
- Simeon Centre, Ridley Hall, Cambridge, UK
- Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK
Katy at the Minnehaha Falls, 3 January 2006
