Kathryn Calder at TEDxVictoria 2013

Kathryn Calder
Kathryn Calder is an accomplished artist who belies her age. Beginning her professional music career as a teenager, she quickly recorded 2 EPs and 4 CDs with Victoria-based band Immaculate Machine (parting ways in 2008). Kathryn has toured the world and recorded 3 albums as a member of The New Pornographers, while also releasing her solo albums Are You My Mother? in 2010 and Bright and Vivid in 2011 (a candidate for the Polaris Music Prize). Kathryn recently filmed a documentary titled A Matter of Time, telling the story of her life and her mother's passing from ALS (aka Lou Gehrig's Disease) in 2009.

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