Kate Prendergast

Ireland

Kate Prendergast is a young, emerging alt-folk musician and singer-songwriter living in County Meath in Ireland. Her latest single ‘Lavender Country‘ came out on 31st January 2025 and is a song about escaping the ‘jail cell they call the worried mind’ and the journey to find peace.

A keen vocalist, Kate also plays piano and guitar and is learning bass and drums. She is carefully building a portfolio of original songs which broadly sit within the folk genre but experiments with ideas and influences from country, blues, jazz and a tinge of rock.

Her first single ‘Past Letters’ was recorded in her small home studio and received considerable radio attention in Ireland and the UK. John Dinsmore (formerly lead singer of the Beat Poets) saw promise in her songwriting abilities and introduced her to producer Declan Legge of Analogue Catalogue Studio B and manager of bands such as Jealous of the Birds and Vera. Declan invited Kate to visit his studio in Newry to work on a single and her second song ‘Undergrowth’ was recorded with drums and bass provided by the talented Darragh Tibbs.

Following the success of this second single, Kate and Declan decided to collaborate further and recorded ‘Lavender Country’. This time Kate chose to move away from the drums of ‘Undergrowth’ in favour of a slow build and change in mood during the song from wistful dreaming to cautious hope to upbeat optimism reflecting the challenging roads many of us traverse as we search for peace and balance in our lives. Her third single has received almost 100 radio plays in the UK and Ireland, including stations such as Today FM, 98FM, RTE 2XM, Cork Red FM, Q Radio, to name a few.

Kate's next single is called Ignition and will be released on 9th May 2025. Ignition explores the uncertainties of starting a new episode in life and the conflicting feelings that often arise for those left behind - between the desire to see loved ones flourish in their new futures and the yearning for them to return home.