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Meet our incredible Book More Women Board of Directors!

From accounting, to banjo, to parenting, our directors are multi-hyphenates with real-life experience with how inequity affects artists in the music industry. Swipe to learn more about their stories and why they believe in book more women!

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Meet our incredible Book More Women Board of Directors!

From accounting, to banjo, to parenting, our directors are multi-hyphenates with real-life experience with how inequity affects artists in the music industry. Swipe to learn more about their stories and why they believe in book more women!

#nonprofit #bookmorewomen #femalefounder #womenshistorymonth

Meet our incredible Book More Women Board of Directors!

From accounting, to banjo, to parenting, our directors are multi-hyphenates with real-life experience with how inequity affects artists in the music industry. Swipe to learn more about their stories and why they believe in book more women!

#nonprofit #bookmorewomen #femalefounder #womenshistorymonth

Meet our incredible Book More Women Board of Directors!

From accounting, to banjo, to parenting, our directors are multi-hyphenates with real-life experience with how inequity affects artists in the music industry. Swipe to learn more about their stories and why they believe in book more women!

#nonprofit #bookmorewomen #femalefounder #womenshistorymonth

Meet our incredible Book More Women Board of Directors!

From accounting, to banjo, to parenting, our directors are multi-hyphenates with real-life experience with how inequity affects artists in the music industry. Swipe to learn more about their stories and why they believe in book more women!

#nonprofit #bookmorewomen #femalefounder #womenshistorymonth

Meet our incredible Book More Women Board of Directors!

From accounting, to banjo, to parenting, our directors are multi-hyphenates with real-life experience with how inequity affects artists in the music industry. Swipe to learn more about their stories and why they believe in book more women!

#nonprofit #bookmorewomen #femalefounder #womenshistorymonth

Meet our incredible Book More Women Board of Directors!

From accounting, to banjo, to parenting, our directors are multi-hyphenates with real-life experience with how inequity affects artists in the music industry. Swipe to learn more about their stories and why they believe in book more women!

#nonprofit #bookmorewomen #femalefounder #womenshistorymonth

My grandfather Wolfgang (Wolfie) Kater passed on to the great library in the sky this morning after a brief and severe illness. I am both devastated at his death and grateful that he is free of pain.

Wolfie was magnetic. Towering at 6 foot 3, he was a harpsichord and guitar (and onetime tracker pipe organ!) builder. An endless tinkerer, he was possessed by the need to know how everything worked. As his only grandchild I became his adventure buddy. We’d spend lazy afternoons in the woodshop, I’d ask him about various machines. We played music together. Once he helped my 4th grade class build ukeleles (misidentified by local news as mandolins).

The only time I ever saw him cry was when we were listening to Penny Lang’s song ‘Spanish Moss’. His tears gave my young self the understanding of the tectonic nature of art to move us and help us process emotion.

To borrow from Joan Didion: “I wish I could touch a key and collapse the sequence of time, show you simultaneously all the frames of memory that come to me now, let you pick the takes, the variant readings of the same lines”. As much as Wolfie was beloved to me and many others, there was darkness too. He had episodes of deep depression, mania, contempt and rage that scared and traumatized me. He was someone who had so much good in him but who could perhaps not, in the end, manage to completely heal the psychic wounds that ailed him. I would like to think he is liberated of those wounds now, like the big sigh of relief at the end of a long struggle. This thought gives me comfort in these sad days.

Wolfie wanted to be cremated and didn’t give much credence to the idea of the traditional biblical heaven. He loved a joke though, so I’ll end with this passage from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”

Rest in peace big man, I will never meet anyone like you again in this plane of existence. I’ll keep your best parts with me. I love you and I always have and I always will. I know you loved me too.

Wolfgang Sebastien Kater (1946-2026)

My grandfather Wolfgang (Wolfie) Kater passed on to the great library in the sky this morning after a brief and severe illness. I am both devastated at his death and grateful that he is free of pain.

Wolfie was magnetic. Towering at 6 foot 3, he was a harpsichord and guitar (and onetime tracker pipe organ!) builder. An endless tinkerer, he was possessed by the need to know how everything worked. As his only grandchild I became his adventure buddy. We’d spend lazy afternoons in the woodshop, I’d ask him about various machines. We played music together. Once he helped my 4th grade class build ukeleles (misidentified by local news as mandolins).

The only time I ever saw him cry was when we were listening to Penny Lang’s song ‘Spanish Moss’. His tears gave my young self the understanding of the tectonic nature of art to move us and help us process emotion.

To borrow from Joan Didion: “I wish I could touch a key and collapse the sequence of time, show you simultaneously all the frames of memory that come to me now, let you pick the takes, the variant readings of the same lines”. As much as Wolfie was beloved to me and many others, there was darkness too. He had episodes of deep depression, mania, contempt and rage that scared and traumatized me. He was someone who had so much good in him but who could perhaps not, in the end, manage to completely heal the psychic wounds that ailed him. I would like to think he is liberated of those wounds now, like the big sigh of relief at the end of a long struggle. This thought gives me comfort in these sad days.

Wolfie wanted to be cremated and didn’t give much credence to the idea of the traditional biblical heaven. He loved a joke though, so I’ll end with this passage from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”

Rest in peace big man, I will never meet anyone like you again in this plane of existence. I’ll keep your best parts with me. I love you and I always have and I always will. I know you loved me too.

Wolfgang Sebastien Kater (1946-2026)

My grandfather Wolfgang (Wolfie) Kater passed on to the great library in the sky this morning after a brief and severe illness. I am both devastated at his death and grateful that he is free of pain.

Wolfie was magnetic. Towering at 6 foot 3, he was a harpsichord and guitar (and onetime tracker pipe organ!) builder. An endless tinkerer, he was possessed by the need to know how everything worked. As his only grandchild I became his adventure buddy. We’d spend lazy afternoons in the woodshop, I’d ask him about various machines. We played music together. Once he helped my 4th grade class build ukeleles (misidentified by local news as mandolins).

The only time I ever saw him cry was when we were listening to Penny Lang’s song ‘Spanish Moss’. His tears gave my young self the understanding of the tectonic nature of art to move us and help us process emotion.

To borrow from Joan Didion: “I wish I could touch a key and collapse the sequence of time, show you simultaneously all the frames of memory that come to me now, let you pick the takes, the variant readings of the same lines”. As much as Wolfie was beloved to me and many others, there was darkness too. He had episodes of deep depression, mania, contempt and rage that scared and traumatized me. He was someone who had so much good in him but who could perhaps not, in the end, manage to completely heal the psychic wounds that ailed him. I would like to think he is liberated of those wounds now, like the big sigh of relief at the end of a long struggle. This thought gives me comfort in these sad days.

Wolfie wanted to be cremated and didn’t give much credence to the idea of the traditional biblical heaven. He loved a joke though, so I’ll end with this passage from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”

Rest in peace big man, I will never meet anyone like you again in this plane of existence. I’ll keep your best parts with me. I love you and I always have and I always will. I know you loved me too.

Wolfgang Sebastien Kater (1946-2026)

My grandfather Wolfgang (Wolfie) Kater passed on to the great library in the sky this morning after a brief and severe illness. I am both devastated at his death and grateful that he is free of pain.

Wolfie was magnetic. Towering at 6 foot 3, he was a harpsichord and guitar (and onetime tracker pipe organ!) builder. An endless tinkerer, he was possessed by the need to know how everything worked. As his only grandchild I became his adventure buddy. We’d spend lazy afternoons in the woodshop, I’d ask him about various machines. We played music together. Once he helped my 4th grade class build ukeleles (misidentified by local news as mandolins).

The only time I ever saw him cry was when we were listening to Penny Lang’s song ‘Spanish Moss’. His tears gave my young self the understanding of the tectonic nature of art to move us and help us process emotion.

To borrow from Joan Didion: “I wish I could touch a key and collapse the sequence of time, show you simultaneously all the frames of memory that come to me now, let you pick the takes, the variant readings of the same lines”. As much as Wolfie was beloved to me and many others, there was darkness too. He had episodes of deep depression, mania, contempt and rage that scared and traumatized me. He was someone who had so much good in him but who could perhaps not, in the end, manage to completely heal the psychic wounds that ailed him. I would like to think he is liberated of those wounds now, like the big sigh of relief at the end of a long struggle. This thought gives me comfort in these sad days.

Wolfie wanted to be cremated and didn’t give much credence to the idea of the traditional biblical heaven. He loved a joke though, so I’ll end with this passage from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”

Rest in peace big man, I will never meet anyone like you again in this plane of existence. I’ll keep your best parts with me. I love you and I always have and I always will. I know you loved me too.

Wolfgang Sebastien Kater (1946-2026)

Surprise! The first listen of my new upcoming song ‘Sidney’ will be premiering today on @nts_radio’s Reimagining Country at 12pm eastern/6pm AMS. I had a wonderful chat with @krolobykhadar about everything from Black socialist revolutions to the genius of Sidney Poitier. Link in b10 to stream the episode.

Surprise! The first listen of my new upcoming song ‘Sidney’ will be premiering today on @nts_radio’s Reimagining Country at 12pm eastern/6pm AMS. I had a wonderful chat with @krolobykhadar about everything from Black socialist revolutions to the genius of Sidney Poitier. Link in b10 to stream the episode.

Revealing the art for me and Kaia Kater’s new single “Looking Forward” coming out this Wednesday, May 20 🔥✨

Pre-save it now at the link in the bio and go pre-order my upcoming album Heart on the Table now also! Gonna drop a little sneak peek of the song tomorrow so stay tuned 👀

#newmusic #banjo #hiphop #explore #folk

Well, is this not an excuse to get the girlies together if we've ever heard one!? For our final live interview aboard Cayamo, we arranged a check-in with some of our favorite folks to talk about the state of Folk Music. Our panel included country artist and host of Apple Music's Color Me Country Radio Rissi Palmer, Canadian sweethearts Rose Cousins and Kaïa Kater, and Jobi Riccio, a self-proclaimed "rizzler." We spoke about the function of folk songwriting, the hope and confidence of Gen Z, the inspiration taken from elders, and the fact that there are Black people in the future (thank you, Alice Randall). Link in bio or where you listen.

Well, is this not an excuse to get the girlies together if we've ever heard one!? For our final live interview aboard Cayamo, we arranged a check-in with some of our favorite folks to talk about the state of Folk Music. Our panel included country artist and host of Apple Music's Color Me Country Radio Rissi Palmer, Canadian sweethearts Rose Cousins and Kaïa Kater, and Jobi Riccio, a self-proclaimed "rizzler." We spoke about the function of folk songwriting, the hope and confidence of Gen Z, the inspiration taken from elders, and the fact that there are Black people in the future (thank you, Alice Randall). Link in bio or where you listen.

Well, is this not an excuse to get the girlies together if we've ever heard one!? For our final live interview aboard Cayamo, we arranged a check-in with some of our favorite folks to talk about the state of Folk Music. Our panel included country artist and host of Apple Music's Color Me Country Radio Rissi Palmer, Canadian sweethearts Rose Cousins and Kaïa Kater, and Jobi Riccio, a self-proclaimed "rizzler." We spoke about the function of folk songwriting, the hope and confidence of Gen Z, the inspiration taken from elders, and the fact that there are Black people in the future (thank you, Alice Randall). Link in bio or where you listen.

Well, is this not an excuse to get the girlies together if we've ever heard one!? For our final live interview aboard Cayamo, we arranged a check-in with some of our favorite folks to talk about the state of Folk Music. Our panel included country artist and host of Apple Music's Color Me Country Radio Rissi Palmer, Canadian sweethearts Rose Cousins and Kaïa Kater, and Jobi Riccio, a self-proclaimed "rizzler." We spoke about the function of folk songwriting, the hope and confidence of Gen Z, the inspiration taken from elders, and the fact that there are Black people in the future (thank you, Alice Randall). Link in bio or where you listen.

Well, is this not an excuse to get the girlies together if we've ever heard one!? For our final live interview aboard Cayamo, we arranged a check-in with some of our favorite folks to talk about the state of Folk Music. Our panel included country artist and host of Apple Music's Color Me Country Radio Rissi Palmer, Canadian sweethearts Rose Cousins and Kaïa Kater, and Jobi Riccio, a self-proclaimed "rizzler." We spoke about the function of folk songwriting, the hope and confidence of Gen Z, the inspiration taken from elders, and the fact that there are Black people in the future (thank you, Alice Randall). Link in bio or where you listen.

Well, is this not an excuse to get the girlies together if we've ever heard one!? For our final live interview aboard Cayamo, we arranged a check-in with some of our favorite folks to talk about the state of Folk Music. Our panel included country artist and host of Apple Music's Color Me Country Radio Rissi Palmer, Canadian sweethearts Rose Cousins and Kaïa Kater, and Jobi Riccio, a self-proclaimed "rizzler." We spoke about the function of folk songwriting, the hope and confidence of Gen Z, the inspiration taken from elders, and the fact that there are Black people in the future (thank you, Alice Randall). Link in bio or where you listen.

Looking Forward featuring the amazing Kaia Kater my upcoming single from my album Heart on the Table is out one week from today on Wednesday, May 20!

Go pre-save it now at the link in the bio!

#banjo #music #hiphop #newmusic #jamband

New Claw & Order episode is live! We’re learning Sun to Sun, a tune I first heard from the wonderful duo @annaandelizabeth. They picked up the tune from Addie Graham, a musician from eastern Kentucky. Addie learned the song from Black railroad workers in her hometown in the early 20th century. Hit my bio for the full lesson 🌝

New music alert incoming! Super excited to announce the second single off my upcoming album Heart on the Table, “Looking Forward” will be coming out in two weeks on Wednesday, May 20 and it features one of the most talented people I know as well as one of my best friends Kaia Kater. This song is one of my favorites off the new album and I can’t wait to share it with you all! 🔥✨🪕

Pre-save is available now at the link in the bio and go stream False Idols out now!

#banjo #folkmusic #newmusic #music #explore

There’s nobody like Townes Van Zandt. He was the ultimate sad girl and studying his lyricism feels like a constant education in the economy of words. Every verb, article and noun is precise and intentional. And yet it all comes together to feel conversational, as if you were talking with your heartbroken + freewheeling friend. Genius stuff!

🎶Buckskin Stallion Blues by Townes Van Zandt

TOUR DATES

6 May | Poole @lighthousepoole
7 May | Wrexham @focuswales
8 May | Wrexham @focuswales
9 May | Stockport @strinesnightingale
10 May | Edinburgh @edintradfest
11 May | Hexham @thevaulthexham
12 May | Sheffield @cafe9
13 May | Bedford @bedfordesquires
14 May | Lewes @singingwithnightingales

There will never be a better time to release our full lineup! Music by local, national and internationally touring artists plus poetry, spoken word, a craft market, art, food trucks and more. It will be our 5th year in the park. Let’s celebrate together! #kcfolkfest #kcfolk #folkfest #celebration #kansascity

KCFF Flyer Artwork: @kaistoodios

Another highlight from last month’s 6th Annual Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival with @sablesistersmusic

Sable Sisters is the brainchild of Grenadian-Canadian singer/songwriter @kaiakater and Atlanta-born, Fort Worth-based singer/songwriter @brandipacemusic . The duo gave their premiere performance at the 2023 Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival, and were joined this year by @shayfiddles

Kaia, Brandi, and Shanice all sing, write music, and play multiple instruments. Together their sound reflects their musical journeys through folk music, old time, jazz, and beyond. Here they are performing a rendition of Kaia Kater’s “Fédon.”

Stay tuned for more FWAAMFest 2026 highlights 🪕🎻🎶

#fwaamfest #blackmusic #fortworthmusic #banjo #folkmusic