Good Songs, Good Friends: Jean Rohe and Rachael Kilgour

Name: Good Songs, Good Friends: Jean Rohe and Rachael Kilgour
Start: 2026-05-16T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Club Passim

Schedule

Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Club Passim | Cambridge, MA

Good songwriters and good friends Jean Rohe (NY) and Rachael Kilgour (MN) take the afternoon stage, sharing songs in the round. Both winners of the Kerrville New Folk Songwriting Contest and members of the 'dead dad club', Kilgour and Rohe found kinship in their related experiences of love and loss, and in their quests to create meaning and community through song.
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.
https://jeanrohe.com/

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. 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.
Kilgour earned a McKnight Music Fellowship in 2025, was an official showcasing artist at the FAI Conference (2025), and was the winner of both the Kerrville New Folk Contest (2017) and the Newsong Competition (2015). Her oft-noted “unapologetic lyrics” (Rolling Stone) and “master crafted indie folk” sensibilities (Billboard) are on full display in her latest collection of delicately woven songs.
https://www.rachaelkilgour.com/