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, society, and religious spaces. Composed 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 that heaven is only accessible to certain groups of people; they believe heaven can be created right here, right now, no matter who or how you love. In June of 2023 for the single’s release, they partnered with the Tennessee Equality Project, a nonprofit that is working for the equality of the LGBTQIA community in Tennessee through legislation. This year, they will be donating a portion of the proceeds from their merchandise towards the ACLU for the continued fight for the many injustices happening in the United States.
With a motto of connection over perfection, in less than two years the band has reached new heights in their collaboration, outselling venues 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. They have played festivals such as BlissFest, Mile of Music, and Sonic Lunch. This summer they will be making their debut appearance at Frederik Meijer Gardens, Wheatland Music Festival and Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon. With record merchandise sales over the last two years, they have quickly 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 first EP, Shake The Ground, will be out this September. You can hear the first two singles off this album, American Dream and Rebel Eve on all streaming platforms. Their full length album will be out in the spring of 2026. To learn more visit www.therebeleves.com.
Meet The Eves
International award winning songwriter Katie Pederson is a pop-piano songstress with Michigan roots. Having toured the country with her soulful songwriting on display, she has shared the stage with artists such as Ben Folds, Mason Jennings, & Will Dailey. Inspired by pop piano icons, Katie's latest full length project “Limitless,” released in the spring of 2022 captured the hearts of fans & critics alike, receiving recognition from the John Lennon and International Songwriting Competitions, and was named as a finalist for album of the year for 2022-2023 with the Indie Acoustic Project. In celebration of a decade of artistry, Pederson’s latest singles pay homage to her younger self & celebrate perseverance in an ever changing music industry.
Jilian Linklater is a Lake Orion, Michigan born singer-songwriter (or songwriter-singer as Jilian puts it). At seventeen, Jilian moved to Nashville, TN where she spent the next eleven years honing her songwriting and performing craft alongside some of Music City’s top songwriters and artists. Jilian’s captivating, confessional and honest songwriting style has captured the attention of listeners (Jilian’s self released records have accumulated over 6 million spins on Spotify) as well as other artists, brands, and collaborators (Disney, Amazon, Netflix, Dave Berg, JJ Heller, and Jason Gray). Since 2021 she has been living, traveling, writing and recording out of a van she converted with her grandfather. Jilian's songs have over 7 millions streams on Spotify.
Grace Theisen is a Kalamazoo-based independent Blues/Americana artist. Grace lived in Nashville, TN from 2015-2018 to run her nonprofit, Songs Against Slavery full-time. In that time she opened for Emmylou Harris, played the infamous Bluebird Cafe, participated in songwriter rounds at The Listening Room and opened for Matthew Perryman Jones at The Nashville City Winery. Grace won Cari Cole’s Best New Artist of 2021 and was named “Artist To Watch” by Local Spins media outlet in January of 2022. In March, she released her 3rd EP, Dance With The Shadows. From that EP, her Down To The River music video won Best Americana Video & The Audience Choice Award at the 2022 Michigan Music Video Awards. Behind the Rain was picked up by one of Spotify's official playlists, Home At Last.
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.
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“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