About The Eves
Connection Over Perfection
The Rebel Eves started with a "stars-aligning" type of friendship and musical collaboration. With beginnings in early 2022, the group formed from the love of creativity and the belief that the joy of connection can break down barriers that women have historically been put into in the music industry, our society, and in our individual religious spaces. Comprised of three Michigan bred award winning songwriters, Katie Pederson, Grace Theisen and Jilian Linklater have spent the better part of the last decade writing, touring, and harmonizing across the country with successful solo careers. With Grace and Jilian both coming out as queer in the last couple of years and Katie being a strong ally to the LGBTQIA community, it is incredibly important to the band that the Rebel Eve shows create safe spaces for this community in particular-especially in a world where their rights are being challenged and taken away at lightning speed. They wrote Heaven Without You as a way to reframe and push back on the messaging they were all raised with that you wouldn't get to "heaven" if you were a part of this community. They released Heaven Without You in June of 2023 and partnered with the Tennessee Equality Project, a nonprofit that is working for the equality of the LGBTQIA community in Tennessee through legislation.
With a motto of connection over perfection, in less than two years the trio has reached new heights in their collaboration, outselling venues such as 20 Front Street & The Clover Room in Michigan, and sharing main stages at large independent midwest festivals with national touring acts such as The Wood Brothers, The War & Treaty, and The Accidentals at BlissFest, Mile of Music, and Sonic Lunch. With record merchandise sales, they have won over the hearts of their audiences with their honest storytelling, hair raising harmonies, and compelling lyricism that makes for true listening room moments attendees won’t soon forget. Cultivating moments of vulnerability, laughter, original songs, and incredible 3-part harmonies in their shows, they can promise you will walk away feeling inspired, connected, and hopeful. Their debut record, Rebel Eve, will be out later this year. You can hear the first single off this album, American Dream, on all streaming platforms.
Meet The Eves
Our motto as a band is "connection over perfection” both on and off the stage and that is exactly what our newest single, First Place, is about. Written by Eves members Jilian Linklater and Katie Pederson, First Place was born out of late night conversations about burnout, the never-ending pursuit of “more”, and the desire to reconnect with music purely for the love of it.
“This business can be so cut throat and the focus tends to be on money, fame, & streams. The industry constantly pits women against each other… starting this band and seeing how much joy and connection it has brought us and our audiences has been a really good reminder of why we began making music in the first place.” -The Rebel Eves