Kath Bloom

Kath Bloom is an American folk singer and songwriter from New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of the oboist Robert Bloom. Between 1976 and 1984 she made a run of spare, intimate records with the guitarist Loren MazzaCane Connors, and her song "Come Here" reached a wide audience when Richard Linklater used it in his 1995 film Before Sunrise. Bloom studied cello as a child and took up guitar as a teenager. Her albums with Connors, among them Sing the Children Over, Sand in My Shoe, Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight (1984), appeared on small labels such as Daggett and St. Joan.