Lavender country is a song about learning to find peace and escaping the 'jail cell they call the worried mind'
Kate Prendergast
Kate Prendergast is a fifteen year old alt-folk musician and singer-songwriter living in County Meath in Ireland. Her latest single 'Lavender Country' comes out on 31st January 2025 and is a song about escaping the 'jail cell they call the worried mind' and the journey to find peace.
A keen vocalist, Kate also plays piano and guitar and is learning bass and drums. She is carefully building a portfolio of original songs which broadly sit within the folk genre but experiments with ideas and influences from country, blues, jazz and a tinge of rock.
Her first single ‘Past Letters’ was recorded in her small home studio and received considerable radio attention in Ireland and the UK. John Dinsmore (formerly lead singer of the Beat Poets) saw promise in her songwriting abilities and introduced her to producer Declan Legge of Analogue Catalogue Studio B and manager of bands such as Jealous of the Birds and Vera. Declan invited Kate to visit his studio to work on a single and her second song ‘Undergrowth’ was recorded with drums and bass provided by the talented Darragh Tibbs.
Following the success of this second single, Kate and Declan decided to collaborate further and recorded 'Lavender Country'. This time Kate chose to move away from the drums of 'Undergrowth' in favour of a slow build and change in mood during the song from wistful dreaming to cautious hope to upbeat optimism reflecting the challenging roads many of us traverse as we search for peace and balance in our lives.
Lavender Country is available on all major platforms from January 31st 2025 and more details can be found at www.kateprendergastmusic.com
Lavender Country
Lyrics by Kate Prendergast
Music by Kate Prendergast & Declan Legge
Recording by Declan Legge and Analogue Catalogue Studio B
Where else can I go?
I’ve lived here so long
Nowhere else feels like home
Waited till the cold
The birds headed south
A long time ago
I know
Couldn’t ask for more
I’ve heard of this place
It’s not so far
Only a thousand miles away
Travel for a few days
And never leave
‘Til our hairs gone gray
But I know
That you wanna stay
It’s, it’s called Lavender Country
It’s, it’s called Lavender Country
And what you wish to be
Is what you used to see
It’s just a dream
And that’s the gift to me
I have done my time
Locked up in a jail cell
They call the worried mind
And I wanna try
To find Lavender Country
It’s alive, is Lavender Country
And what you used to be
Is what you wish to see
It’s just a dream
And that’s the gift to me
It’s called Lavender Country