Katherine "KC" Groves is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 mandolin

Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

 player and singer specializing in old-time music

Old-time music

Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music, with roots in the folk music of many countries, including England, Scotland, Ireland and countries in Africa. It developed along with various North American folk dances, such as square dance, buck dance, and clogging. The genre also...

 and bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

. She grew up in Dearborn

Dearborn, Michigan

-Economy:Ford Motor Company has its world headquarters in Dearborn. In addition its Dearborn campus contains many research, testing, finance and some production facilities. Ford Land controls the numerous properties owned by Ford including sales and leasing to unrelated businesses such as the...

 and lives now in Lyons, Colorado

Lyons, Colorado

Lyons is a Statutory Town in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,585 at the 2000 census. Lyons is located at the confluence of the North St. Vrain Creek and the South St. Vrain Creek, twenty miles east of Rocky Mountain National Park. Due to its location at the...

. Coming from a musical family, her father is a singer and a country yodeler, she had piano lessons at the age of six, though she hated them.

In the early 1990s she began playing guitar, writing songs, and learning mandolin. Soon she established herself in the Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...

/Detroit

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

 alternative music scene. In 1999, she released her first CD, Can You Hear It, produced by Charles Sawtelle, and won the Detroit Music Award for Best Bluegrass Artist/Group.

Together with Jo Serrapere she founded the old-time music

Old-time music

Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music, with roots in the folk music of many countries, including England, Scotland, Ireland and countries in Africa. It developed along with various North American folk dances, such as square dance, buck dance, and clogging. The genre also...

 band Uncle Earl

Uncle Earl

Uncle Earl is an American old-time music group, formed in 2000 by KC Groves and Jo Serrapere. They are an all-women-band and often they refer to themselves as the g'Earls. Their fans have also been nicknamed as g'Earlfriends....

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Her second solo CD, Something Familiar has been released in 2004.

Can You Hear It

1999 (One Man Clapping Records)

1. Can You Hear It?/Lost Indian
2. Peach Pie
3. New Mexico
4. Little Sky
5. You Think We're Friends
6. Pony Days
7. When the Wind Blows Free
8. Hold On
9. Weedin' Onions
10. I'll Take You in My Arms
11. Bad Boy Blues
12. And the World Turns Around

Something Familiar

2004 (KC Groves)

1. Snapshots of a Life
2. Thinking in Terms
3. Denver to Telluride
4. Heidi
5. Soft Complaint
6. Something That Happens
7. Keep on Lookin'
8. Just Like the Snow
9. Song in My Heart
10. What Went Wrong
11. St. Vrain Waltz

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