Contributor Profile

Catie Curtis

Professional Musician

Catie Curtis, born and raised in Saco, Maine, began playing guitar and writing songs at the age of 15. Trading back and forth between her high top sneakers and her 6-string acoustic, Catie spent as much time during her college years playing hoops with the Brown women's basketball team as she did playing her songs at the campus coffeehouse. After graduation, Catie moved to San Francisco CA, waitressing at a diner by day and writing songs by night. A year later, Catie succumbed to the pull of her New England roots, finding a home in the thriving Boston acoustic music scene. While employed for a few years as a social worker, Catie recorded From Years To Hours and Truth From Lies on her own indie label. In 1996, EMI/Guardian Records signed Catie and released Truth From Lies internationally. Her eponymous second album with Guardian contained the single "Soulfully," and helped break Catie into the national spotlight. The New Yorker deemed her a "folk-rock goddess," and a career was officially launched.

Since then, Catie has toured with Lilith Fair, and with artists such as Dar Williams and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Her songs have appeared in numerous television shows (Dawson's Creek, Felicity, Chicago Hope, and Alias), and independent films (500 Miles to Graceland, A Slipping Down Life). She continues to tour, headlining clubs, theaters and acoustic listening rooms, building and nurturing a strong and loyal fan base around the US and Europe. She released two records on Rykodisc Records, "A Crash Course in Roses" (1999) and "My Shirt Looks Good on You" (2001-from which the single "Kiss that Counted" won a Boston Music Award). Catie released "Acoustic Valentine" on her own Sam the Pug Records in 2003. "Dreaming in Romance Languages," (2004) and Long Night moon (2006) are her most recent releases.

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11/17/2007	Passing Through What is our perspective of responsibility to the next generation?	hi res
11/17/2007	People Look Around Written in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with Mark Erelli, song won Grand prize in the 2006 International Songwriting Contest	hi res
11/17/2007	The Big Reprise There are many difficult things within tragedies to understand and digest, but the burning of a church seems more difficult to rationalize than most.	hi res
05/20/2005	Dad's Yard While we all can communicate at an adult level, we all have different perspectives on the value of what we see. Many are lucky to have a parent or parents that offer insights and comfort.	hi res
05/20/2005	St. Lucy Lucy was a young Christian woman who had vowed her life to the service of Christ. Unfortunately in the face of a spurned, pre-arranged marriage, the rejected pagan bridegroom, Paschasius, denounced Lucy as a Christian. The governor ordered her killed. After torture that included having her eyes torn out, she prophesized against her persecutors, and was executed. Lucy became the patron saint of the blind and those with eye trouble.	hi res
05/20/2005	Wolf Social Workers encounter many that have been affected in abusive relationships. At times, it is not always obvious who is being affected and how they are being affected.	hi res

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