Katherine Perkins writes songs and paints in Maine. Her music and artwork explore light and color, the ocean and the human heart.
As the leader of the Brooklyn based band Rose Hips & Ships, she released The Seafarer, in 2013, and The Colors Now, in 2020. Her paintings have been shown at the Cynthia Winings Gallery, in Blue Hill, Maine and Swallowfield, in Northeast Harbor.
Through time spent in her earlier projects -apart from Rose Hips and Ships, the debaucherous basement rock band Harvey Eyeballs- Perkins discovered aspects of the self she wanted to be in her songs, gradually revealing what would become her new solo project of poetic personal reflections. Being Younger, her debut solo album, is a collection of  vivid, evocative songs about love in all its forms, in which Perkins assembles the perfect cast of seasoned and sensitive players to create the lush instrumentation and grounded, danceable grooves that make the ideal companion for her breezy vocals.
Her new record, Being Younger, is due out on Twelve | Eight Records on June 21st, 2024.

Sarah Once Was’ sound reflects their origins in the redwoods north of San Francisco and their current urban landscape of smoggy LA sunsets. The artist’s comforting melodies sail sideways against the wind of sliced up rhythm sections, shrieking violins, strummy acoustics, and west coast synths. Sarah McNamara, the non-binary artist behind Sarah Once Was goes by the name “Mac.” Mac attended Mills College in Oakland, trained in audio production at Women’s Audio Mission, and soon after, migrated south to Los Angeles, where they work as a recording engineer, mixing engineer, “producer auteur,” and are on staff with several independent studios (Wiggle World, Universal Hair Farm, etc). 
In 2023, they recorded artists such as Kelsey Lu, Circles Around the Sun and Mikaela Davis. Mac toured as stage manager and tech for Dijon, tour managed Grateful Shred, and opened for Mikaela Davis on a tour.  As artist, recording engineer, and producer, Sarah Once Was collaborates closely with members of Worthitpurchase and artist Chloe Corley to craft folk songs in the quantum vein.
Thumbnail Moon is the third single released by Sarah Once Was, following 2023’s Honest which featured bassist Dan Horne (Circles Around The Sun, Grateful Shred) and earned them a supporting tour slot for Mikaela Davis. Serving as producer and engineer on Thumbnail Moon Sarah Once Was continues to evolve their folk songs crafted in the quantum vein, bringing in new collaborators to provide sliced up rhythm sections, shrieking violins, strummy acoustics, and west coast synths over the artist’s comforting melodies.