Kate Schutt

Kate Schutt (pronounced “shut”) is an award-winning songwriter, singer, guitarist, and producer whose voice NPR calls “glassily clear and glossily sweet.” She studied poetry at Harvard and guitar at Berklee College of Music.

Kate’s most recent project is the album "Bright Nowhere," made with legendary producer/arranger Rob Mounsey.  It maps the landscape of loss around her mother’s diagnosis and death from ovarian cancer. 

Kate spent four years as her mom’s primary caregiver, along the way writing songs about life, loss, and (to use Christopher Hitchens’s potent phrase) “living dyingly.” 

Kate’s TEDx talk, “A Grief Casserole -- How to help your friends & family through loss,” has been called “nothing short of life-changing” for people struggling with grief.

Kate’s songs have won top honors from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and ASCAP.  

She’s shared stages with Terri Lyne Carrington, Bill Frisell,  Julian Lage, Scott Colley, and Bernard Purdie, to name only a few.