kaia kater

Kaia Kater is not only a great musician but also a subtle and searching songwriter. Strange Medicine is her most diverse and complete album to date…a hopeful triumph from an utterly distinctive songwriter.

New Dangerfield is the highly anticipated Black string band supergroup that brings together Jake Blount, Kaia Kater, Tray Wellington, and Nelson Williams. Their first Single, “Dangerfield Newby” is out now and pays homage to 19th Cent. Black Abolitionist.

Our Song of the Day comes from Kaia Kater with her new single ‘The Internet’ taken from her forthcoming album on Free Dirt Records. Her UK and European tour kicks off this month.

Our Song of the Day comes from Kaia Kater with her new single “Parallels” featuring American jazz trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – “It’s about ripping out harmful beliefs that have grown and taken root inside many of us like weeds”.

Taken from her new album Grenades, which was released this month in the UK, watch Kaia Kater performing ‘Meridian Ground’, a song centred around family lore.

Impressionistic rather than explicit, thoughts and emotions are woven through the musical fabric as much as the lyrics on Kaia Kater’s ‘Grenades’, it marks a huge leap on her musical and personal journey, and sharing it is a privilege.

For the first time ever, two legendary Folk Festivals on two continents are teaming up to spread the word about a few talented artists. We caught up with Darlingside and Kaia Kater at Newport Folk Festival ahead of their Cambridge appearance.

In a new video, Rhiannon Giddens, this year’s guest curator for Cambridge Folk Festival, reveals her choices which include Amythyst Kiah, Kaia Kater, Birds of Chicago and Peggy Seeger. Watch the video and enjoy our special showcase playlist.

Our latest mix is chock full of new music from the likes of Nessi Gomes, Lisa Hannigan, Ruth Theodore, Kaia Kater, The Gentle Good and more plus some vintage tunes from Led Zeppelin (live in Paris), The Amazing Blondel and Tim Hardin.

Nine Pin is a stunning album of understated clarity and insight, effortlessly bridging the past and the present to create a blueprint for the future. Included in our review is the video premiere for Harlem’s Little Blackbird.

We have an exclusive video premiere, also our Song of the Day, from the young Canadian roots musician Kaia Kater. Watch the video for “When Sorrows Encompass Me Round”, which takes a line from an old fiddle tune song and reworks it into the story of a runaway slave.