Katherine "KC" Groves (born March 14, 1971) is an American mandolin player and singer specializing in old-time music and bluegrass. She grew up in Dearborn, Michigan and lives now in Lyons, Colorado. 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.

Life and career

In the early 1990s she began playing guitar, writing songs, and learning mandolin. Groves established herself in the Ann Arbor / Detroit 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. KC liked piano enough to play jazz gigs on the weekends while attending UM and played with the band Tomcat. In addition, she painted the mural on the iconic local party store: The Blue Front. Prior to 1999 She released 2 CDs in the Ann Arbor/ Ypsilanti area. The Uncle Earl Album was produced by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. Together with Jo Serrapere she founded the old-time music band Uncle Earl. Her second solo CD, Something Familiar was released in 2004.

Discography

Can You Hear It

1999 (One Man Clapping Records)

Something Familiar

2004 (KC Groves)