Jessica Rhaye is a Canadian, independent singer songwriter, performer and visual graphic design artist. With a 25-year career, her musical repertoire moves easily between folk and Americana. Rhaye performs solo, with her folk trio Preeper Rhaye MacKay, or with her folk-rock backing band The Ramshackle Parade.
Among Jessica’s musical accolades are 8 full-length independent albums, Wood & Wire (2024) with her folk trio, Sunshine Baby (2023) and Just Like a Woman - Songs of Bob Dylan (2019) with The Ramshackle Parade, and solo releases Song In Me (2016), Far Gone Lullabies (2013), Good Things (2009), Short Stories (2006), Jessica Rhaye (2000).
Her songs have twice been a finalist in the Canada Music Week National Songwriting Competition as well as a finalist in the folk category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Jessica has been nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award, multiple East Coast Music and Music New Brunswick Awards and has had songs featured in television series Unstable (CMT) and Heartland (CBC). Her albums have received glowing buzz from Americana UK, Americana Highways, BBC Radio, FATEA UK, Great Dark Wonder, and Sirius XM “North Americana”.
Jessica’s notable co-writing partners over her career include Ron Sexsmith, the late Ken Tobias, Steve Poltz, Brent Mason, Royal Wood, and Matt Andersen.
Many prestigious stages have welcomed Jessica over the years, including the National Arts Centre, Stan Rogers Folk Festival, Mariposa Folk Festival, Area 506 Festival, Dooryard Festival, Shivering Songs, Canadian Music Café, Hughs Room, Hotel Café, and Half Moon Putney.
For her design work on her own music projects and in collaboration with numerous musicians, Jessica Rhaye has won both the ECMA for graphic artist of the year and Music NB visual artist of the year.
Jessica Rhaye currently resides in her home province of New Brunswick, Canada and continues to write, record, and tour with her band The Ramshackle Parade, and her folk trio Preeper Rhaye MacKay, whose latest work has been hailed by Americana UK as, “Traditional music at a very high standard”.
