KC Chilcoat

KC grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore listening to Soul music: the Supremes, James Brown, Otis Redding, and especially Aretha Franklin. She started playing guitar in high school--folk songs at first because they were the easiest to learn--the music of Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkle. As her guitar playing improved folk music gave way to psychedelic music and KC started playing songs from groups like The Doors.

KC met Francis in 1973. Together they founded the Mountain Momma Band. When their son was born in 1983, she took a hiatus until he was 8 and their daughter was 3. Rejoining the band, she played keys while Bill Harris (now of Joe's Garage) played bass and Francis played guitar. KC continued to play with the band through various metamorphyses. In the past several years she and Francis played as an acoustic duo at such places as The Avalon Resort (in Paw Paw) and Will Fannon's lodge, The Brazenhead Inn (just south of Elkins) during ski season.