KATUS

"Better than red-stripe!" - N16 Fringe, London

Serendipidous meetings with good folk have marked the musical journey of Katus Young and John Burns.
The pair will play at Picton's Le Cafe on Valentine's Day and this week passed through Marlborough as they started the South Island leg of their New zealand tour.
The pair perform what can only accurately described as Katus music.
The duo take the name of katus who grew up in Wales, the daughter of an English father and a Czech mother. She holidayed at her grandmother's house in France and has lived and travelled in many countries.
As a result KAtus sings in English, French, Czech, Bulgarian, Russian,Gaellic and other languages including Elvish, which is an innate language understood by some.
" It's more about emotions," she says.

She has sung for "as long as i can remember", but it was through art that Katus first expressed her creative side professionally.
She says it was a period living in America that seems to have moved her to music. " I didn't perform while i was there, but when i got back i picked up the guitar."
She later picked up the flute.
Katus' music is lively, a jolt from everyday mundaness to a happy space.
Her philosophy? " Follow your heart," she says in a beat.
JB adds: "To travel and play. We are a pair of gypsies really."
The couple met at Glastonbury Festival. Katus played a quick, cheerful number to a group of people who were helping a friend, violinist Nigel Kennedy, and invited them along to her gig.
JB was the only one to take her up on her offer. For a while JB was the all round helping hand on Katus' tours. He had a habit of tapping his hand on his leg, so Katus took it as a hint and bought him a drum..
Since then he's been the percussionist. - Saturday Express