This past Monday KT (Kate) Tunstall played an intimate club that started out as a Polish dance hall in the twenties. This club, Irving Plaza, has now been a great venue for music for over thirty-five years. Kate did not disappoint. Her opener, Colin Youngblood, was a solo act on keyboards doing a cross between soul and new age music. He was good. Then Kate came on at 9pm eager to please. She was funny, talkative and happy to be back on the road with a new album "Kin". KT said she moved from Scotland to America when her stepfather died two years ago. Her new home is in Venice Beach, California and you can hear some Los Angeles influence in her new work. Her band was good. Keyboards, drums and bass and their backup vocals worked well. KT is as always very cute, in shape, and a musical powerhouse. She let the band take a break at one point and used a foot operated digital recorder to record hand claps, percussion off the body of her guitar and the audience singing certain phrases behind her guitar playing and singing to make for some really good music. She even had the audience turn on their cell phone flashlights and wave them side to side for a great visual effect. In short, Kate is an amazing singer, songwriter, musician and performer and has been since her debut album, Eye To The Telescope, came out in 2004 and one of its hit singles, Suddenly I See, was used in the title credits at the opening of the movie, "The Devil Wears Prada". If you haven't seen KT Tunstall, buy a ticket when she plays your town. You'll love this show!