Rebecca Katz's favorite four-letter word is "folk."

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Rebecca has been singing, making up songs, and making noise on various instruments since she was very young. At 13, she picked up her dad's guitar so she could be the cool counselor at summer camp. A year later, she wrote her first original song and has been writing ever since.

In college at Brandeis University, Rebecca played more than 80 shows on campus.  Now a touring artist based in Boston, Rebecca has performed at venues and events up and down the Eastern Seaboard including Studio 99 (Nashua, NH), Ebenezers Coffeehouse (Washington, D.C.), and the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference.  Along the way, she has shared stages with many performers including Kym Tuvim, Lara Herscovitch, and Adam Levy (guitarist, Norah Jones), and opened for Teddy Goldstein, Ryanhood, and Pamela Means.

Rebecca truly has an acoustic heart. An explorer of a myriad of genres, she will always come home to one hundred percent handmade music. She considers herself a lifelong student of language and songwriting, as you might expect of an artist with an advanced degree in English literature.  Like her hero Nanci Griffith, Rebecca is also devoted to passing on traditional songs and favorites by fellow writers.

In addition to writing and performing, Rebecca has been a folk radio deejay.  She co-hosted The Watch City Coffeehouse, Bob Weiser's program on 100.1 FM WBRS (Waltham, MA), for over three years, and directed and engineered the station's live concert broadcasts.

Above all, Rebecca enjoys connecting with people through music. On stage, equipped with a clear, confident voice, she can as easily evoke laughter from her audiences as improvised harmony. Equal parts songwriter and storyteller, she is all-heart all-the-time, and brings her special touch to every room she plays.

Rebecca's debut recording, Spendin' On Today, engineered by Mark Thayer at Signature Sounds Studio, was released in September 2007.