CATE CLIFFORD is a typically unaccompanied singer based in Rhode Island. With powerful vocals, sensitive harmonies, and engaging context gleaned from intensive study, Cate creates a vivid and accessible pathway to the songs she offers, the people and stories behind them, and the profound, timeless delight of sharing both. A proud member of AFM Local 1000, the Traveling Musicians Union, she has raised rafters and cracked hearts in homes, venues, festivals and recording studios on both coasts of the USA. She maintains that no set is immune to a dash of Sondheim or a sprinkle of Shakespeare.

SELECT GIGOGRAPHY

* – Featured Guest Performer

2025

Roots Music Stomp
The United Theatre
Westerly, RI

2024

Daily Antidote of Song
Virtual

Folk Music Society of New York Fall Weekend
Kerhonkson, NY

2023

Devil Songs: Year 6
Providence, RI

Raise the Rafters Traditional Song Weekend
Rhododendron, OR

Deb Cowan and Cate Clifford: Songs That Touch the Past
CT Museum of Culture & History, Hartford CT

Late Night Dutch Barn Pub Sing Host
Old Songs Festival, Altamont NY

Whittier’s World in Verse and Song –
Cultural Arts Day on the Freeman Trail (with Lynn Noel)
Whittier Birthplace, MA

GottaGetGon Folk Festival
Ballston Spa, NY

CT Sea Music Festival Benefit Concert & Auction
Essex, CT

2022

Morningsong
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown NC

Devil Songs: Year 5
Providence, RI

Late Night Dutch Barn Pub Sing Host
Old Songs Festival, Altamont NY

A Fun Night with Sally Rogers, Howie Bursen,
The Vox Hunters & Cate Clifford
Virtual House Concert, CT

2021 (All Virtual)

Songs of the Supernatural
Folklore Society of Greater Washington (FSGW)

Late Night Pub Sing Host // *Vox Hunters & Friends
Virtual Old Songs Festival

Vox Hunters & Friends Virtual Brunch Concert
Folk Song Society of Greater Boston (FSSGB)

*Ballads, Ballads, Ballads!
(hosted by Sally Rogers & Howie Bursen)
Folk Music Society of New York (FMSNY)

2^nd Annual Poetry Concert with April Grant

Live from Catelandia:
Cate Clifford Virtual House Concert Series IV & V

2020

Live from Catelandia: Cate Clifford Virtual Concert Series
I-III

Cate Clifford & The Vox Hunters at Flipp Salon
Providence, RI

2019

*Old Songs Festival Ballads Workshop
Altamont, NY

*Mystic Sea Music Festival Sunday Concert
Mystic, CT

2018

Pawtucket Arts Fest Downtown Rising Festival
(with Quahog Quire)
Pawtucket, RI

2017

Devil Songs at The Music Mansion
Providence, RI

*Fox Point Folk Festival
Providence, RI