With her distinctive voice and arsenal of powerful songs, Martha Wainwright is a beguiling performer and a refreshingly unconventional force in music. As NPR’s Ann Powers puts it, "[Her] songwriting thrills with its honesty and enchants with its lyricism, grounded in her love of the American songbook, French chanson and the confessional singer-songwriter realm that was her home school.” Martha’s latest album, Goodnight City, was released in 2016 and includes songs written by a diverse slate of composers including Beth Orton, Glen Hansard, her brother Rufus Wainwright, novelist Michael Ondaatje, and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs.
Martha, who is the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, is currently finishing up a book titled Stories I Might Regret Telling You, which, like her songs, is a window into her life without artifice, pretension, or fakery.