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Campfire Conversation:

Eric and Ana welcome award-winning singer-songwriter Katie Scullin into The Cabin as we continue our

series on emerging Wisconsin musicians and bands. Katie has performed with several bands and has her

own eponymous band with touring experiences from Wisconsin to Texas. She released her first full-

length album, Pieces, in 2017 using a Kickstarter campaign. The local chart performance of her song

"Porch Hangs" helped land her on the cover of Maximum Ink Magazine. She proceeded to take home an

award for Best Pop/R&B Song at the Madison Area Music Awards. In 2019 she was voted Best of

Madison - Gold and Best Musician/Band by the Jefferson County Daily Readers Poll. She opened for, or

shared a bill with, Bret Michaels, Big Sean, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Uncle Kracker, Gwen Sebastian,

Charlie Berens, and Jay Leno. We discussed how family – particularly her siblings – influenced her to

pursue a music career and learn the arts of singing, playing a variety of instruments, and songwriting.

She played in a band called Rivalry (as in sibling rivalry) and performed at venues like Summerfest before

she broke out on her own. She described how her styles and music preferences developed over time

and what it’s been like to release new material as technology continues to emerge. In part due to

COVID, she also recently branched out into music production and engineering while also teaching guitar,

voice, and songwriting. We also discussed venues, collaborations with other artists from well-

established to up-and-coming, getting your music on Spotify, launching a Patreon, and a variety of ways

as a musician and artist you can hone your craft and develop your career while living and working in

Wisconsin. We also have her song “Bloom” featured in the podcast, too!

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