press

Not only a virtuoso musician, Travers is also a creditable actor. She delivers a gutsy performance in her challenging dual role, providing live music and narrating... Her dazzling, improvisatory accordion melodies and bluesy vocalisations help interpret the dance routines.
Naomi Millett, The West Australian

as performer

Cathie Travers adds propulsion for the rhythm section, sweet melodic flavours and haunting themes with her piano accordion playing
Sylvester Fox, Groove Magazine

Her playing is spellbinding, and this is due in no small part to the concentration and emotional honesty she brings to her playing.
Carol Flavell Neist
Artshub

Often the home-grown product is superior to the imported variety. An initial impression that this was so hardened to belief as I listened to El Quattro. The performers came very close to the central shrine of Piazzolla's creative output with interpretations that underscored the difference between mere notational accuracy and a revealing of the idiosyncratic interior mood of the music.
Neville Cohn, The West Australian

Cathie Travers is one of our most talented composers and performers.
David Hough, The Bulletin

Sanctuary consists of several movements. An unaccompanied melodic passage on the harmonium is joinedby the vibraphone, marimba and two bass clarinets, before embarking upon an exquisite duet with the accordion, which was one of the highlights of the performance.
Kelly Curran, Resonate magazine

as composer

Chugging rock energy propels Cathie Travers' "Bent Funk", which opened the concert with a riff-fuelled blast.
Josef Woodward, Los Angeles Times

If you visit Perth, you may well hear the exciting acoustic and electronic music of Cathie Travers
Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein
Australia for Women: Travel and Culture

In "The Healing Garden" - a response to living on some hectares of tranquil bushland - these gentle, meditative musings for accordion, saxophone and organ were balm to the ears...in one of the most quietly persuasive premiere performances I've heard in some time. I would gladly have heard it all over again - and that is the warmest compliment one could give to a thoroughly pleasing addition to the repertoire.
Neville Cohn, The West Australian