Award-Winning Singer & Songwriter KAT EDMONSON is described "with an equal foothold in jazz, cabaret and vintage cosmopolitanism pop" (NEW YORK TIMES).
Kat is equally comfortable on the stage, in the recording studio, on a movie set, or recording The Kat Edmonson Show from the intimacy of her own home. She has played major stages across the United States, Europe, and Asia from Carnegie Hall to the Montreux Jazz Festival to the Blue Note in Japan.
Kat's outstanding performance was featured on CBS Saturday Morning on Christmas Day 2021! NPR says, “Hearing Edmonson makes it virtually impossible to do anything but stop and listen.”
Raised on the music and film of the early-to-mid-twentieth century, Kat is a rare artist who embodies the spirit of the past while remaining resolutely au courant. She performs original songs and familiar classics in her live show, interweaving humorous anecdotes, philosophical musings, and her love of film with disarming candor and vulnerability. Her longtime band members’ keen and sensitive accompaniment allows Kat to freely veer off-script as she’s often inclined to do.
In 2016, she appeared in Woody Allen’s “Cafe Society” as a 1930s jazz singer and was highlighted on the official soundtrack performing her version of “Mountain Greenery.” Her experience in Allen’s film inspired the artist to study the craft of acting. In the winter of 2022, Kat made her theatrical debut in "The Hang": a new jazz opera by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray. Upon its opening, the off-off Broadway show received "Critic's Pick" in The New York Times highlighting Kat's "extraordinary artistry." The show, "The Hang", imagines the final hours of the life of Socrates as he asks his friends to use every moment left to think on virtue.
Kat Edmonson and her band have recorded a Christmas album including Yule-tide favorites such as “Jingle Bell Rock”, “O Christmas Tree”, and “Let It Snow”. 'Holiday Swingin’! A Kat Edmonson Christmas Vol. 1' was described by Jazziz as “impeccably hip” and included in the NEW YORK TIMES list of “13 Albums That Revisit (and Redefine!) Holiday Classics."