Rachel Lee Walsh is a New York based Singer & Songwriter. As a young person, she grew up in Northern Florida with family members who held a variety of working class jobs. She also had parents who worked on the business side of music & advertising as talent and tour managers and a maternal grandmother who was an opera singer and painter. Rachel started performing in theater, TV commercials, and music productions at 7 years old and for college she moved to New York City to study music performance at The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music. After college, she would go on to pursue music as a Singer/Songwriter and played every style of music from punk to folk to jazz. Her original songs fit comfortably into Americana and Singer/Songwriter genres. Whether it’s a lullaby to her son who wakes from a nightmare, an upbeat catchy song love song, a bluesy song about loss, her music is rooted in telling personal stories. She has released 3 EP’s, has toured across the U.S., was the winner of the Brooklyn Anthem Bash with her song “Please Come To Brooklyn” ("Acoustic Darling and Brooklyn's Francis Scott Key" - Brokelyn), co-founded the “The Ignition Lab” songwriter series, and is the band leader for The Rosemary Jazz Band, who play 20s-40s style "American Songbook" type of music. The last few years have included getting back into playing live after the pandemic, holding live-stream performances, building her custom music production company “Instruments & Cake”, releasing her holiday single "This Christmas (All That I Need Is You)", and fundraising for LGBTQ+ Homeless Youth. She has lived in many places, including New York, North Carolina, California, and Florida but she calls New York home. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her wife and young son and two dogs who keep the house full of noise and dirt . She also works as a creative talent consultant for the design and marketing industry.

Instrumentation
The Rachel Lee Walsh Band - Solo (Rachel on Guitar/Vox/Piano), Duo (w/2nd Guitarist),
or Full Band with Vocals, Guitar, Upright Bass, Violin, Violin, and Pedal Steel
The Rosemary Jazz Band - Vocals, Guitar, Upright Bass, Clarinet/Trumpet

Discography
2021 - Holiday Single "This Christmas (All That I Need Is You)"
2012 EP w/Full Band, “The Singles”
2009 Solo EP, “She’s Not Waiting”
2004 Solo EP, “Peasant Stock and Trash”