Rachael Kilgour writes in hopes of finding a truth she can live with. Her heartfelt release, “My Father Loved Me”, was written in memory of her late Canadian dad and and led her on an extensive tour across the U.S. and Canada. In the spare and often gutting language for which she is known, Kilgour poses questions about belonging, inheritance and grief and triumphantly affirms the value of one ordinary working man’s life. Her live performances radiate with sincerity and humor.
Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the sociopolitical forces that shape them. Her long list of awards is a testament to the breadth of her vision, spanning prizes in roots music, song craft, lyric writing, theater arts, social-justice work, jazz performance, and arts education from organizations as diverse as the Brooklyn Arts Council, The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the Jonathan Larson Foundation, the Johnny Mercer Foundation, and MacDowell.