As a North American country folk musician, she has traveled to festivals, camps and conferences while only being in her teens at the time. Now at 26 she has been featured on NPR for a Tiny Desk Concert.

Her 2016 album Nine Pin introduced her to the world as a new generation of traditional Americana roots music. “I spent a lot of the last record (Grenades) [I wrote it] in Grenada.” she said at Tiny Desk. “It’s a very fertile island, they call it the island of spice. It’s a country that has experienced a lot of political turmoil, … but more than anything it’s a country that my father left at 16 years old.” Leaving at that age can be quite the journey for someone so young – scary even. But in Kater’s 2018 album release of Grenades, she explores those roots that she had been so afraid of. “He came to Canada as a refugee on his own. It’s a story I think I ran away from for a long time, I sorta didn’t want to reconcile with myself. Being this kind of hyphenated Canadian. For this record … I decided to face that in all of its many ways.” Her mother being from Canada, and her father being from Grenada she has the unbelievable opportunity to explore different ranges of music.

Following the gut she seems to have inherited from her father is likely the best thing to do. Especially by winning the “Pushing the Boundaries” award at the 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards for Nine Pin. 

Songs form Grenades:

• New Colossus
• Heavenly Track
• Canyonland
• Power! Power! Power!
• La Misere
• Meridian Ground
• Starry Day
• Death of a Dream
• Grenades
• Hydrants
• Everly
• The Right One
• Off the Plane – this track is dialogue from her father
• Poets Be Buried

(song list found on Spotify)