Kathleen Dunbar

The Battle Here is a free verse style poem I wrote when I was sixteen years old. Here also is a photo of me, teenage Kathleen in my favorite forest green fedora hat. At the bottom of this article you…Read more

when Mrs. Graham came out to California bearing the maiden name I never knew she looked out of the train window into the flat stretches of Nebraska and saw a man on a horse with a hat “There‘s The Cowboy”…Read more

I am excited and delighted to announce that I am nominated in THREE categories for the Just Plain Folks Music Awards, (exact date to be announced soon! I will be attending and can’t wait!)  It’s a big deal: 17K albums…Read more

Here’s the link TO LISTEN TO an instrumental version MY ORIGINAL SONG “Half of You Good” (from my forthcoming album Liars, Cutthroats and Dames) opening Adriana Marchione’s film-in-progress The Creative High and watch Adriana Marchione’s coolio film in progress: LINK…Read more

DATE: Thursday 03/24/16   TIME: 1:00pm-2:00pm   WHERE: 89.5 KPOO-FM You can also Tune in ANYWHERE on phone/desktop w/ the KPOO app at this LINK.  I am excited to support the making of Adriana Marchione’s latest documentary film entitled The Creative High…Read more

Here I am, working on my Western novel, and we find The Rifleman as he rides into a town as a young man I arrived in Dillardtown on a fine evening having crossed a stony river lined by cottonwoods and…Read more

Japanese Tea Garden I spent many years going to the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, writing poetry and observing people. Over the years I wrote down some of the interesting things I heard people saying—the quotes in the…Read more

RADIO INTERVIEW: Kathleen will be interviewed on Blue Lew’s SFCR Radio show this Monday, May 25! WHEN: Monday, May 25, Labor Day TIME: Somewhere between 3:30 and 5:30! SHOW: The Blue Lew Show INTERNET RADIO: To listen to the interview…Read more

Thanks to everyone who helped make the gig at Bill Cook’s Barn an amazing show! Bill says, “Kathleen’s music and her band are top class. Wow! Her songs are diverse, sensitive, powerful and spellbinding.”   Thanks to my smokin’ hot ……Read more