Take a long drive to anywhere through the timeless stylings of singer/songwriter Kate Dinsmore as she performs at Finnriver Farm & Cidery at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 10.

Her original work crosses lines, swerving through jazz, rock, and Americana to create a familiar sound with her intimate and triumphant voice.

Her choir-teacher mother had Dinsmore start singing early, and she ended up on stage in her first musical at age 5.

“My first love vocally is definitely 1930s, 1940s jazz vocalists. Especially growing up doing musical theatre. All those old musicals, the song book is just the great American song book,” Dinsmore said in an interview with The Leader.

“You can tell with the lounge-y vibes and simplicity of lyrics, that’s definitely where I draw most of my inspiration from,” she added.

It’s easy to hear those simple lyrics reflecting the wind-blown roads many are born on.

“I write a lot of my melodies while I drive because I’m not distracted by other things around me,” Dinsmore said.

After following the musical theatre thread through college, she took off on a new adventure.

She sang backup for a number of ensembles before eventually forming her own band.

So far, she’s released two EPs with more music on the way this year.

“I’m working on two projects simultaneously right now,” Dinsmore said.

Which she’ll be bringing with her in a stripped down form to Finnriver.

“They’ll sound very different with me alone,” Dinsmore said. “I think you get a little more of the country-jazz player when I play solo. I do still play with an electric guitar, so I do have that kind of rock element if I feel like opening it up a little bit.”

From her homebase in Seattle, she keeps busy belting out ballads.

“I gig all of the time. I’m gigging like three to four times a week at this point,” she said.

All that action keeps her esophagus strong in combination with a number of hums, trills, and other warm-up techniques.

“There’s a straw thing that I do to get my breath online. It’s basically like lifting weights for your breath,” Dinsmore said.

She even offers these techniques to others by teaching vocal lessons while still occasionally taking some herself from a college mentor.

“It’s cool to see how my voice has evolved over the years. I’m in my early 30s now and that’s kind of when your voice starts to fully mature,” Dinsmore said.

There is a $3 or $5 cover charge, collected 30 minutes before the music starts.