Biography
24 September 1949, Waltham, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Raised in New England, Kilgore played guitar and sang as a child. In 1979 she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she sang with a wide range of groups in many different musical styles, including a big band, a western swing group, and her own sextet, Beck-a-Roo. This group mostly performed country music hits from the 60s. Her jazz credentials were greatly enhanced through engagements with Dave Frishberg with whom she worked as a duo. They released Not A Care In The World on Arbors Records in 1997. She has also recorded (I Saw Stars) with a mainstream band, Dan Barrett’s Celestial Six. Kilgore, who also sometimes teaches, was attracting much more attention in the late 90s and in 2000 owing to some very good, spirited and well-received albums. Her eclecticism was revealed in some of these sessions, which included a tribute to Maxine Sullivan for Audiophile Records, an appearance on a...
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