Kathleen Parks, Her Fiddle, Charm and Chops: The Right Notes in the Right Places
Kathleen Parks, with fiddle, performs Jan. 29, 2026, at White Lake Studios in Albany, NY. From left, guitarist Arthur Terembula; bassist Dan Bui; Parks; and guitar and pedal steel player Alex Formento. Photo by Will Hahn.
By John W. Barry
Her charm, her chops and the way fiddle player, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Kathleen Parks commands a room is mesmerizing.
But even more compelling is the relationship that binds her creative spirit to her instruments—which can be summed up in one line.
Kathleen Parks plays the right note at the right time—over and over and over and over.
Parks and her band recently dazzled an invite-only audience at White Lake Studios in Albany, NY, for a performance that maintained the thrust of a locomotive, the nuance of devotio...