Rachael Sage is a vibrant and innovative New York-based Americana folk-pop singer/songwriter and activist who has shared stages with an eclectic list of artists including Imelda May, Beth Hart, Will Young, Howard Jones, Eric Burdon, Jamie Cullum, and Judy Collins – with whom she also recorded a critically-acclaimed duet of Neil Young's "Helpless".
Performing 100+ dates a year on both sides of the Atlantic – both solo and with her longtime band The Sequins – at venues including London's Palladium & O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, the Edinburgh Fringe, Whelan's in Dublin and listening rooms across the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and France, Rachael has earned a loyal following for her dynamic piano playing, delicate guitar work, soulful vocals, and improvisational audience interaction. Uncut dubbed her "a muscular and hugely talented pop songwriter", and Stereo Embers described her as "the kind of performer you can't take your eyes off"
A self-described "cancer thriver", Rachael has advocated and raised funds via recordings and live performances for various charitable beneficiaries, including Foundation for Women's Cancer, WhyHunger, akt, Ditch The Label, and Alight (American Refugee Committee), with focuses on women's health, youth homelessness, anti-bullying, and victims of gun violence.
"Inspired by…Elvis Costello, and backed by brilliant East Village friends of Rufus, Anohni and such, Sage hits somewhere between the bedsit and the cellarful of noise and it does you good." – MOJO
"a muscular and hugely talented pop songwriter" – Uncut
"Weaving together bits of folk, pop, rock, blues, jazz, and cabaret while stirring in Celtic and Middle Eastern accents, Sage has created an eclectic body of work that's witty, graceful, and powerfully intimate." – NPR Music
"Rachael Sage has an inimitable personal style... a performance as distinctive as it was entertaining." – Washington Post
"Her keen, ironic sense of humor and quirky sense of the profound is what makes her special as a songwriter" – Billboard
"Sage sounds exactly like she looks: glamourous, sincere, sparkly and intelligent." – Music Week (UK)