Kate Burke
Multi-instrumentalist · Singer · Songwriter
Upcoming Shows
Upcoming Release:
Familiar
Coming 2026
Kate Burke returns with her debut solo album, after topping the ARIA Country Charts with the New Graces. Featuring songs about binary star systems, bushfires, skyscrapers, and personal loss, the album draws on her early musical life as a piano player, and her decades-long experience in the folk scene.
About Kate
Kate is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer and music producer, familiar across international folk and country music circuits.
Kate’s latest project is her first solo album, “Familiar” produced by award-winning producer and songwriter Shane Nicholson, to be released in early 2026.
As The New Graces, Kate and the band received four Golden Guitar nominations and presented at the 2021 CMAA Golden Guitar Awards. Kate has also long collaborated with Ruth Hazleton, Trouble in the Kitchen, and Luke Plumb.
Kate has recorded with many artists including Judy Small and David Ross McDonald (The Waifs), has twice toured Ireland with renowned Irish folk singer Andy Irvine, and has appeared as a vocal soloist at the Sydney Opera House for a season of Bush Babies’ Proms.
Kate is well known as a songwriter and tune writer. Her tune “Dark Room Fiddler” has been performed by many artists, and recently recorded by The Neon Effect. Kate also wrote and performed music for the soundtrack of documentary “Being Change” by filmmaker Toni Houston, which has been broadcast as an episode of ABC’s Compass series.
Two of Kate’s albums have been named as Folk Album of the Year by the National Film and Sound Archive, and her two latest releases with Trouble in the Kitchen and Luke Plumb & The Circuit were nominated for the 2018 Age Music Victoria Award for Best Folk/Roots Album.