Kate Rhudy Offers Songs With Serenity On Debut Album

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,

Charlie Shelton

Published June 16, 2017 at 11:42 AM EDT

Raleigh-based singer-songwriter Kate Rhudy picked up a violin when she was just a kid. She spent her childhood at fiddler’s conventions and regularly played folk music at home with her family. Now she has channeled her reflections on relationships, romance, and life on the road in her debut album “Rock N’ Roll Ain’t For Me.”

A conversation with singer songwriter Kate Rhudy and she performs a few of her songs live in our studio.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Rhudy about her musical upbringing and her new album, and Rhudy performs live in the studio.

She will be performing in Durham as part of the Festival for the Eno on Tuesday, July 4.

Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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Charlie Shelton