Kat Steeves @ the Elora Brewing Co.

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Kat Steeves will be performing at the Elora Brewing Co. as a part of our ongoing free music weekends! Come experience wonderful music, all in the setting of a beautiful brewery in the heart of Elora!

About:

I’m Kat, a queer Canadian singer-songwriter from Toronto but currently living in Guelph, Ontario.

Music has been a part of my life since I was a kid wandering around singing wherever I went. I kind of made everyone crazy, but it was obvious that this was the direction I was going according to my mother.

I started playing the piano as a child but was not very interested in learning how to play. After stopping the piano for a while, I picked up the guitar and fell in love. I would end up playing the guitar on and off for almost 10 years but only for fun. I switched to a ukulele in summer 2019 while I was living in Guelph. While looking for a way to make a little extra money, I decided to do what many musicians do and tried my luck out at busking. I would go downtown some afternoons and evenings with the ukulele, mic and an amp and play for hours. I tried to use my guitar, but people seemed to enjoy the ukulele music more. So, the ukulele stayed, and I would busk down by the bars on Friday and Saturday nights from 11pm until 2am some nights. I would also frequent open mic nights downtown and still do even now; it's one of the best spots to test out new material.

I mostly play covers, but the list of my own originals is slowly growing.

Being up on stage is quite possibly the most terrifying thing in the world, but once I start singing, all of that melts away. There is nothing better than hearing the audience sing-along. It’s a powerful thing.

I take bookings for events, weddings, BBQs, and bars. Hopefully, you will find me a fit for your next event.

If you are interested in hearing more, please reach out, I would love to chat.

Thanks for taking the time to read!

Kat.

Links

• Website katsteevesmusic.com

Organizer

Elora Brewing Co.

How it came to be...

Back in spring of 2013, word got around Elora that two different beer lovin’n groups of friends wanted to open a brewery: Matt and Jim were home brew buddies, and business colleagues Jon and Don eventually met up with brewer Alex and the two groups met. Many beers were drank. Many slurred conversations were had, and eventually the wheels were put in motion to open a brewery. Fast forward and the doors were opened a year later after a massive transformation of a beautiful, 150+ year-old limestone building. Since then, Elora Brewing Company has brewed hundreds of beers (we’re talking millions of litres of people) and become Elora’s number one late-night hot-spot and day-time hangout. And we make kick-ass beer too.

Before it came to be...

Our beautiful, historic building was originally owned by a grocer who specialized in tea, who constructed the first store on our site in 1868. It was destroyed in a brutal fire that ravaged the entire town in 1883, and the following year the row-buildings were rebuilt. This limestone building has seen various incarnations over the years, including a longstanding hardware store.

What it came to be

Gastro pub. Brewery. Bottle shop. Music venue. Party central.

What’s the deal with Elora anyways?...

Elora is this awesome blend of agricultural heritage and artistry. Scattered throughout town you’ll find musicians, actors, sculptors, architects, painters, farmers, poets, authors, carpenters, choir singers and everything in between. There are music and food scenes that other towns only wish they had, and we’re a quick drive from downtown Guelph and KW, and we’re about a 1.5hr drive west of Toronto. “Hippies,” artists, actors and other like-minded individuals starting moving here in the 1970s and meshed with the blue-collar crowd to build Elora into what it is today. And oh yeah, the abso-fucking-lutely mind-blowing Elora gorge is in our back yard.

Remember, Elora beer is best served with friends, and we hope you enjoy our beer as much as we enjoyed making it.