Summer Folk series: Kate Hinote is an award-nominated Detroit singer-songwriter performing predominantly original material she has co-written for her various projects, including Alt-Rock band, The Blueflowers, which she has been fronting for the last 10+ years. Hinote has a voice that’s both cinematic and operatic, a mood-setting, mellifluous intonation that fits inside candle-lit lounges, late summer night feverdreams, or as a torch song from a surreal soundtrack. The Kate Hinote Trio is a contemporary folk ensemble completed by The Blueflowers’ guitarist, David Johnson, and Matthew Parmenter (Discipline) on violin. Their debut album, Near, was released in March 2021