Biography
Kirsten Scholte was raised in
the small town of Orillia Ontario, on seven acres of country land. She grew up
listening to music that was played around the house, and covered genres of
folk, rock, country/bluegrass and Celtic music. After four years of playing
trumpet in her high school band and traveling to several music festivals in
Canada, she decided to apply to Humber College for a Contemporary Music Performance
Degree majoring in voice. It was in her 3rd year at Humber that she began to
piece together her band The Fancys
with Matthew Bailey on mandolin/electric guitar & back-up vocals, Lucas
Gadke on bass and Justin Ruppel on drums/back-up vocals. Kirsten Scholte has
been songwriting for over six years, establishing a unique style of writing and
musical identity in the roots genre. She has been performing live with the band
for the past two years, developing sets of original repertoire and gathering inspiration
from artists such as Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Blue Rodeo and Lucinda Williams. In
August 2010 Kirsten Scholte and The Fancys finished their first album entitled “What I Have is all I Need”. The album is a collection of music that expresses
values of life, love, rural Canada, and the changes and independence of moving
on.
