{"id":1440,"date":"2014-04-17T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2014-04-16T08:47:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:47:49","slug":"downingtowns-klim-brings-new-music-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Downingtown’s Klim brings new music home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buoyed by new love, new album, artist performs at Burlap and Bean, April 25<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>,\u00a0Correspondent, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Things are looking up for Downingtown native singer-songwriter Kate Klim, who boasts a new marriage as well as a new album in the works. She comes home to perform at Newtown Square’s Burlap and Bean, April 25.<\/p><\/div>\n

Singer-songwriter Kate Klim lived in the Boston area for a number of years and now is a resident of Nashville, Tennessee. But, no matter where she chooses to establish her current base of operations, Downingtown will always be her hometown.<\/p>\n

Klim, a 2000 graduate of Downingtown High, returns to the area to perform a few times each year and her \u201chome away from home\u201d has become Burlap and Bean Coffee in Newtown Square. On April 25, Klim will headline a show at the intimate venue and share the bill with Peyton Tochterman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve played a lot of venues in the Philadelphia area including Burlap and Bean, World Caf\u00e9 Live, Steel City, Tin Angel and the Point,\u201d said Klim, during a recent phone interview from her home in Nashville.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent years, Burlap and Bean has become my \u2018go to\u2019 place. It\u2019s a great room to play and the people who run it are the kindest people. It feels like a musical home because they care about the music and the musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lot of things are happening in Klim\u2019s life in 2014 and, fortunately, they are all good things.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just got married at the beginning of April,\u201d said Klim. \u201cAnd, my new album will be ready for release later this year. My parts are all done. I went to Los Angeles to record it at Kingsize Soundlabs with producer Brian Packer. Right now, he\u2019s finishing the production work on it. Then, I will need to add some more background vocals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klim was able to \u201cfeel the love\u201d prior to making the new disc in a number of ways. She felt the love from her fans during a Kickstarter campaign and the love from a blossoming relationship that led to her marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did the Kickstarter campaign last fall and it was great,\u201d said Klim, who earned a degree in songwriting from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. \u201cWe met our goal. The industry keeps changing and fans are replacing record companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform in which fans are offered rewards in exchange for their pledges. A pledge goal is set and the artist must reach that goal or forfeit the pledges. Klim\u2019s goal was $10,000 and she received $11,127 from 128 backers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe backers will be the first to receive the album when it\u2019s completed,\u201d said Klim, who has two previously-released albums — ‘Heaven Help Me,’ ‘Kamikaze Love’ and ‘Up and Down and Up Again.’ \u00a0\u201cThen, I\u2019ll release it on iTunes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new album ties in with the fact that I just got married. \u2018Kamikaze Love\u2019 was more about heartbreak. Actually, this is my first album that is not about heartbreak. It\u2019s way more optimistic. I found that songwriting that is happy is harder that songwriting about heartbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klim, who plays keyboards and sings, will be performing a set at Burlap and Bean which is half new material and half songs from her prior albums. Ironically, Klim\u2019s initial interest in the arts was not as a singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the longest time, I really wanted to be an actor,\u201d said Klim. \u201cI was even a teen rep on the board of Barleysheaf Players. Every summer, I was in a show at Barleysheaf and I also was in a lot of musicals at school.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was 15, I shifted to music. I went on a leadership trip in high school — LINK (Leaders Involved in Networking Kids) at Camp Conrad Weiser. It was about finding out about other people. After that, I focused on music and started writing seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played music a lot when I was in high school. My first performance of a song I wrote was at a choir concert at school. I also won a talent show at Downingtown High and I got to perform at graduation. I played an original song about leaving and going out on your own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klim has been out on her own for awhile but is definitely not just on her own. She has loyal fans all across the country and a loving husband. Local fans can hear her new \u201chappy\u201d sound on April 25 when she plays at Burlap and Bean Coffee (204 South Newtown Street Road, Newtown Square, 484-427-4547,www.burlapandbean.com<\/a>). The show begins at 8 p.m. and tickets are $10.<\/p>\n

The schedule at Burlap and Bean for the remainder of the month also includes — April 18, Caitlyn Canty, Rusty Belle; April 19, J. D. Malone, Ron Gallo; April 23, Emily Kinney; April 24, Eli Conley; and April 26, Atlas Gray, Owen Danoff.<\/p>\n

The following is the venue\u2019s schedule for May — May 2, Charlie Phillips, Elwood James Band; May 3, Hezekiah Jones, Psalmships; May 7, Jadea Kelly, Sympathy and The Lion; May 9, Barnaby Bright, Ken Yates; May 10, John Galla and Hilton, Bower and Jones; May 14, One Kid One Key Fundraiser; May 16, Amy Speace, Jarrod Dickenson; May 17, Mark Mandeville, Raianne Richards, Kyle Swartzwelder; May 21, Delco Story Slam; May 23, Jess Klein, Daughter and Son; May 24, The Vinegar Creek Constituency; May 29, Matthew Ryan, Bethel Steele; and May 31, Craig Bickhardt, Michael Logen, Lizanne Knott.<\/p>\n

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