Feel free to adapt the following to press releases for Kim’s appearances.

About our performer:
If you think no one writes folk songs like they used to, you need to hear Kim Wallach. A veteran of the '70s folk scene in Harvard Square, both as soloist and as one-third of the Short Sisters, Wallach seems always to have kept in mind the power of music, particularly folk music, to heal - whether that healing comes in the form of fostering hope, a sense of strength and resolve in the face of injustice, or simply the ability to laugh and take comfort.
Listening to Wallach's ringing alto, accompanying herself on guitar and banjo, you sense that she hasn't a pretentious bone in her body.  Some people have been recording music for twice as many decades as Wallach has, and have not reached the level of emotional nuance that she achieves. Hers is a frank, New England voice; it's the voice of someone who has spent the morning splitting wood and making bread dough, and is now wiping her hands on her jeans and looking around to see what else needs doing. It is the voice of the friend, who, when you come to her with a heartache, will make coffee and tell you wise and grounded things in a calm, unflinchingly honest voice. And more than that: it's the voice of someone who has done some remarkable things in her life, from a family of people who have done remarkable things, and she wants you to know, in your sadness and doubt, that you can do it too. Imparting that kind of message can be the most healing act of all. It's what the best music, especially folk music, has always done.


~ from Ken Arnold, Off the Square Coffeehouse

Ms. Wallach is a songwriter with a fine command of imagery in her lyrics and a gift for creating vivid word portraits with few well chosen words. Her stage manner is warm and easygoing: she has a nice way of engaging her audience, turning the performance setting into an intimate, conversational gathering. 

 ~ Worcester  Evening Gazette