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Recording at Rooster Studios (Toronto, ON)
with Charlotte Cornfi eld, January 2015.
Photography
by
Joe
Corn
eld,
All
Rights
Reserved
A
fter
studying
jazz
performance
at
McGill
University
from
2007-2010,
Kate
Palumbo
continued
to
live
in
Montreal,
immersed
in
the
local
music
scene.
While
she
was
a
member
of
the
jazz
quintet
Atomic
5,
the
group
wonthe
2010
Jupiter-Vandoren
New
Talent
Contest
and
signed
a
recording
contract
withCanadian
label
Effendi
Records.That
same
year,
Palumbo
released
a
full-length
album
with
Takk,
an
all-female
jazz
quartet.
Both
groups
had
featured
performances
at
the
Montreal
International
Jazz
Festival.
For
several
years,
Palumbo
performed
with
Montreal
klezmer-
punk
band
The
Youjsh,
a
localfavouriteat
festivals
such
as
Pop
Montreal,
L›OFF
Festival
de
Jazz,
and
Innovations
en
concert.An
in-demand
bassist
in
jazz,
pop,
folk,
and
world
music,
Palumbo
was
regularly
hired
for
various
gigs
throughout
Ontario,
Quebec,and
Atlantic
Canada.
As
a
result
of
dealing
with
record
companies,
promoters,
and
club
owners
in
Canada
and
abroad,
Palumbo
came
to
appreciate
the
signi
cant
power
imbalance
that
can
exist
between
artists
and
those
they
often
rely
upon
to
give
public
expression
to
their
works,
so
she
applied
to
law
school.
Through
volunteering
with
Artists'
Legal
Advice
Services
and
in
her
role
as
legal
summer
student
with
Live
Nation
Entertainment,
Palumbo
experienced
the
many
legal
issues
facing
artists
from
the
other
side
of
the
negotiating
table.
Through
these
activities,
in
second-year
law,
she
hopes
to
build
on
her
experience
in
the
music
industry
to
position
herself
as
a
strong
advocate
for
artists'
interests.
Meanwhileshe
has
continued
to
perform,
currently
playingbass
for
Toronto-based
singer-songwriter
Charlotte
Corn
eld.
■
The
musician's
advocate
