Rivergigs Presents: Rachael Kilgour & Jean Rohe LIVE at [the square]

Good songwriters and good friends Jean Rohe (NY) and Rachael Kilgour (MN) take the stage, sharing songs in the round. Both former winners of the Kerrville Newfolk Contest and both members of the 'dead dad club', Kilgour and Rohe draw on their shared and diverging experiences to create meaning and community through song.

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Live at - 34 Preble St, Portland, ME

Presented by Rivergigs

5:30pm Doors open

6:00pm Drinks & appetizers

7:00pm Beautiful music

$20 adv. / $25 day-of-show

ALL AGES • BYOB

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. Her live performances radiate with sincerity and humor.

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/

Instagram: /rachaelkilgour

Facebook: /rachaelkilgourmusic

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/

Instagram: /jeanrohe

Facebook: /jeanrohemusic

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