Rebecca McDade

e globe where she has called home. After moving with her family to Portland, Oregon in 2006, McDade became an avid participant in the music and theatre spheres of the city. In 2008, she was awarded a Portland Area Musical Theatre Award (PAMTA), and the following years involved continual participation in choirs, musicals, benefit concerts, and contributions to both studio recordings and musical enrichment programs. She spent her third year of university at The University of Glasgow, back in Scotland, where her love for the folk music of the American sixties first began to blossom. After two years of writing and recording a collection of demos both in Scotland and Oregon, her debut album was recorded at The Trench Studios in Portland in late 2017. However, her demos have garnered airplay on both sides of the Atlantic, most notably on BBC Radio Scotland. Since the beginning of 2017, she has been working as a music instructor at Salem's Rivercity Rock Star Academy, and upon her graduation with a BA in Psychology from Oregon State University, she moved to Salem to continue teaching. She now instructs at Salem's Little Friends Montessori School as well as at RiverCity, and can be found performing frequently in Portland, Salem, and Corvallis venues.