KATE BARRY

Kate Barry is a versatile vocalist, songwriter, and educator who has been performing regularly since 2012. Kate is a classically trained singer with influences ranging from Annie Defranco to Ella Fitzgerald to Sharon Jones and many more. She has performed her original songs and arrangements in small combos as the Kate Barry Band and her 7 piece band Kate & The Nouveau Groove, as well as performing with many bands on the North Shore and her new home, Downeast Maine. Kate made the move to Maine in 2020, where she started Salt and Oak Farm with her husband and two kids. Kate & The Nouveau Groove released an album in 2019 titled “Shoot Me a Look,” which can be found on all streaming services.

RHIANNON HURST

Rhiannon Kaela Hurst, is a national and international award winning Jazz Vocalist. She has set her heart on making music, and works professionally with Big Bands and Combos, performing at venues around New England. Rhiannon was named a 2021 Award Winner in the Jazz Voice category of the prestigious National YoungArts Competition. She was a featured artist at the 2023 International Guinness Jazz Festival in Ireland, performing as a solo artist and as an opener. Rhiannon currently attends College of The Holy Cross as the Brooks Music Scholar for the class of 2025, in conjunction with continued Jazz Voice studies at New England Conservatory in Boston with Prof. Dominique Eade. You can catch her singing with her duo, the Cape Ann Big Band & Sextet, and other Boston-based bands on the North Shore!

MARI MARTIN

Mari has been entertaining audiences with her compelling voice and signature stage presence for over 35 years. She has sung back-up for Kenny Loggins, opened for and shared the stage with Tower of Power, WAR, the Moody Blues, Travis Tritt, the Average White Band, Alan Parsons, and many others. She has performed at the Obie Awards, the Majestic Ventura Concert Theater, Santa Barbara’s Lobero and Granada Theatres, the Cabot and Chevalier Theaters, the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and hundreds of weddings and events from Massachusetts to California. Mari created DIVAS for a CAUSE concerts when she lived in Santa Barbara, CA, and this is the 4th concert with the fabulous Cape Ann Divas. A 5th-generation Rockport Native, Mari loves to travel the world, and is thrilled to be back home for this special event for Rockport Music’s Education Programs. She is humbled and awed by the talent and commitment of her fellow Cape Ann songbirds and her crack band, the Lucky Boys, and wishes to extend a huge thank you to all.

AMY RICH

Amy Rich has been captivating audiences with her powerful vocals for the past seven years as part of her band, Headlands. With a passion
for music and a soulful voice, Amy has made a name for herself on the Northshore music scene. Aside from her musical endeavors, Amy is proud to call Rockport her home, where she also works as a teacher at Rockport High School. Amy’s dedication and talent have earned her the privilege of performing with the Divas once again. It is both her pleasure and honor to be part of such a prestigious group of female artists and she is so looking forward to this reunion on the Shalin Liu Performance Center stage.

KIVA TRUMBOUR

Kiva is a graduate of Berklee College of Music where she studied vocal performance, songwriting, and dance. She can take any song and make
it hers—with a range and power that is scintillating and jaw-dropping. Kiva sings professionally with many Boston bands, and this Rockport native is excited to be back home to “diva it up” with all these lovely ladies!

MEGAN WOLFFE

Megan Wolffe, a Gloucester native, is thrilled to be back on Cape Ann after spending the last 4 years between Salt Lake City, Utah and Las Vegas, Nevada establishing her Amy Winehouse tribute act, Back to Black LIVE, and raising her two young children with husband Leighton. Since her return, Wolffe has resumed career activities with multiple projects and performed to sold out audiences across the greater Boston area. She is one of the leading members of the local 80’s dance band SAFETY as well as a featured vocalist with the band Dyer Goodwin Chakour (members of Joe Cocker, Tina Turner, Robert Palmer), the latter of which she performed a 28 date European tour with their Joe Cocker legacy project, Mad Dogs Unchained. Megan is also an accomplished songwriter and recording artist. Her debut original album “That Girl” (2017) cowritten and produced with local guitarist/producer Jon Butcher, features her versatile vocal range and raw, honest, bio-autographical story telling. Megan is known for her captivating stage presence and commanding voice. She draws you in from the very first note, and holds you till the last crescendo, weaving the audience in and out of improvised melodies and cascading rhythms of blues, jazz, and pop. She is delighted to be returning for her third Divas performance at the Shalin Liu Performance Center.

Mari Martin top photo credit: Sheila Roberts Orlando