Kath Bloom

Katherine Bloom is an American folk songwriter based in Litchfield, Connecticut.

Biography The daughter of oboist Robert Bloom, Bloom grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, where she studied the cello as a child and started playing the guitar when she was a teenager.

Bloom collaborated with Bruce Neumann in the early 1970s, and started to record music with avant-garde guitarist Loren MazzaCane Connors in 1976. Their collaboration ended in 1984 with the release of their final album Moonlight, of which only 300 copies were pressed.

Bloom stopped recording new material soon after her collaboration with Connors ended, and a period of financial hardship followed. A single mother, Bloom focused on raising her children, rarely playing shows outside of New Haven. She began writing songs and recording again in the early 1990s. According to a 2016 interview, Bloom first started touring in 2009, and she enjoys performing now more than she did earlier in her career.

Discography With Loren Mazzacane Gifts LP, Daggett Records, 1978 Fields LP, Daggett Records, 1978 Hanford, Bloom And Mazzacane LP (with Tom Hanford), Daggett Records, 1981 Listen to the Blues 7-inch EP (with Tom Hanford), Daggett Records, 1981 Pushin' Up Daisies 7-inch EP, Daggett Records, 1982 'Round His Shoulders Gonna Be A Rainbow LP, Daggett Records, 1982 Sing the Children Over LP, Ambiguous Records, 1982 Guitar Pieces cassette, Daggett Records, 1983 Sand in My Shoe LP, St. Joan Records, 1983 Restless Faithful Desperate LP, St. Joan Records, 1984 Moonlight LP, St. Joan Records, 1984

Solo Come Here: The Florida Years CD, self-released, 1999 Terror CD, Chapter Music, 2008 Thin Thin Line CD, Caldo Verde, 2010 It's Just a Dream CD, self-released reissue, 1996, 2011 Here I Am CD, Caldo Verde, 2012 Somewhere in California CD, Vow Records, 2014 Pass Through Here CD, Chapter Music, 2015 This Dream of Life CD, Caldo Verde, 2017 Bye Bye These Are The Days LP Dear Life Records, 2020

Compilations 1981-1984 CD, Megalon Records, 2000 Finally CD, Chapter Music, 2006 Sing the Children Over / Sand in My Shoe 2-CD, Chapter Music, 2008 Restless Faithful Desperate / Moonlight 2-CD, Chapter Music, 2009

Tribute albums Loving Takes This Course 2-CD, Chapter Music, 2009