About SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES//// MUSIC + PERFORMANCE
“My work is about reclaiming agency. It is about giving voice and liberation to what was repressed and silenced.”
Described by Sasha Geffen as "Best Feminist Rock n' Roll Exorcism" SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES is artist and vocalist Kate McCandless. Armed with voice and looping pedal and a fierce, shamanic energy, SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES lures with nostalgia - simultaneously embracing and questioning its comfort and authority with a dark, feminist bent. McCandless creates and performs her work both solo, and in collaboration with other musicians. The affect is jarring, haunting, and a cathartic call to action.
McCandless is originally from Northern California. She studied Theatre, Performance and Poetry at North Park University in Chicago, IL. She has performed as an actor, musician, and performance artist in the Chicago area for over 10 years. She now resides and in Kansas City, MO with her partner and child.
About SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES//// HEALING ARTS
Kate McCandless (SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES) is as an artist, writer, energy healer, and tarot reader in the Kansas City area, after studying and practicing in Chicago IL. Her Shamanic approach takes the work beyond the basic hand positions or interpreter role, and flows seamlessly with her artistic practice and expression. Kate was attuned and initiated into the Reiki practice at levels 1-Master through Sara Gaines of Red Bird Reiki’s 1 Year Shamanic Reiki Apprenticeship (Chicago/Galena IL.) There she studied and explored Shamanism in the open tradition/practice of the Andean Peruvian shamans/Q’ero. Kate’s path to Tarot came naturally and intuitively and she is mostly self taught, though counted among her teachers is Lindsay Mack. Kate has completed Mack’s renowned and in depth course, Tarot for the Wild Soul and continues to study and practice on her own. Kate believes tarot and energy work is for every person and can be used as an excellent tool for self reflection, healing, and self care for any one who is curious, interested, and/or called. She serves as a compassionate facilitator and holder of space. She believes the journey is yours and she is here to support that without dogma nor judgement. Kate believes that tarot and energy work is intended to be inclusive, compassionate, healing, unpretentious and easeful, while rooted in the here and now. By reflecting on “what’s here now” we can curiously and kindly bring our awareness to reach for a more whole and healing present, and therefore, future. Other practitioners/artists she considers teachers and inspirations are Chani Nicholas, Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, Tatianna Morales, Renee Sills (Embodied Astrology,) Michelle Tea, Julia Cameron, and Rachael Gonzalez (FAMILIAR) just to name a few.