American folk singer-songwriter Kath Bloom will play our Council Chamber as part of Borderless festival.

Bloom's country, blues and folk are made beautifully translucent and emotive with a voice that is delicate and tender, but retains that raw emotion and hard worn truths.

The daughter of world-renowned oboist Robert Bloom, Kath was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut where she trained as a cellist, but soon gave it up for the acoustic guitar. She strums with a claw-like hand, wearing a belt of harmonicas that she switches to match the chords of each song.