By TOM D'ANTONI // Violist Kyleen King ended up a splendid 2022 with an appearance with Brandi Carlile's band on Saturday night LIve and New Year's Eve show at the Moda Center. How did all this happen to her?
Hi there. We’re not in Café Artichoke today because I have the covid. I am not in any danger but I don’t want to give it to anyone and so I am at my desk, and at her home in Portland is violist Kyleen King.
She is having the time of her life, having played the Moda Center on New Year’s Eve and an appearance on Saturday Night LIve both as a member of Brandi Carlile’s band.
Matter of fact, she’s played all over the world as Brandi’s violist.
How did this happen? How did she become a member of Brandi’s band? And what’s up with Swansea, another band she’s in, with Portlanders Rebecca Sanborn and Ji Tanzer.
It’s a happy episode of Coffeeshop Conversations.