Kate Lines was born and mostly raised in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

She spent her youth dancing, singing, acting, and writing songs. She enjoyed much success during these years, acting on international stages, dancing with a performance troupe, and winning many awards at arts festivals.  She represented Canada playing the lead role in Canadian Gothic at New Zealand’s International Festival of the Arts.

After high school, she won a song-writing contest, and recorded her first CD. Soon after she formed the band The Girls, and played bass and sang lead in this all girl original band.  Kate then toured Canada playing bass with The Stoaters, a Celtic punk band.  She did the university circuit with The Stoaters, sharing the open-air stages from BC to Nova-Scotia with many bands including Spirit of the West.  Kate played her original music on Much’s Lunch TV during that tour, and many other local TV programs across the country.  What a beautiful country it is!  Kate feels very lucky to have seen it from a band van and countless indoor and outdoor stages.

After returning from tour, Kate made her own CD, Six Songs.  She started the band SortaPop, and opened a recording studio called The Project Studio.  During this time she also worked as a freelance graphic designer and website builder.

Kate built and opened  a cafe called The Wik in 1996, just off 3rd and Main in Vancouver.  The cafe had live music and a liquor license.  After 2 years, Kate sold the Wik and eventually it became Donato’s.  She still lived close by and thoroughly enjoyed the music scene at Donato’s.  That is where she met Tom Lehar, the man that she would cruise the seas with as a lounge singer, and eventually, the man she would start a family with in Northern B.C.’s Prince Rupert.  Here in Rupert, Tom has opened a recording studio called Summit Sound Lounge, and Kate has opened a record label called Garden Records, with her business partner Matt Simmons.  She is interested in developing a community based music scene in Rupert and Garden Records’ first project is a compilation CD full of songs about Prince Rupert to be released in 2010, Prince Rupert’s Centennial.

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