Rebecca Haviland is a Grammy awarding winning vocalist and multi-instrumentalist with extensive songwriting, performance & touring experience. She recently completed a year playing keyboards and guitar for multi-platinum selling pop artist Rachel Platten, which included television performances on Ellen and Good Morning America with performances across North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. Rebecca, the granddaughter of jazz musicians, got her start at a young age when her father started sneaking her into bars when she was 13 to sit in with her uncle's band.   Her own band, Rebecca Haviland and Whiskey Heart, includes members Chris Anderson (Martin Sexton), Todd Caldwell (C S & N) & Kenny Shaw (Dispatch). They have performed in support of Roberta Flack, James McCartney, Rick Springfield, and Martin Sexton. Their first album, released in 2012, received awards in the International Songwriting Competition and Unsigned Only Competition.   Rebecca's new album entitled "Bright City Lights" was released in April of 2018 and produced by Don DiLego (Jesse Malin, Hollis Brown) at Atomic Sound in Brooklyn. It reflects Rebecca’s experiences on the road encompassing American roots music.   "Rebecca Haviland is breaking barriers with her eclectic form of Americana," - No Depression   "Rebecca Haviland asserts her individual voice as an expressive force on the passion-fueled Bright City Lights, a gritty exploration of identity and culture," - Atwood Magazine

BACKSTORY I have been playing music a long time. I started out scared as all hell the first time I played in public. "Fronting" the band, I didn't move one step from the mic stand and never let go of it either, for the entire time we played. My first cover bands were classic and southern rock with a fair mix of the blues. That never really changed over the years. As I began writing my own songs I was greatly influenced by all those songs we had played. The first songs, with my band Five O'Clock Shadow, were more about the music and less about the lyric. I developed my craft as a writer further, upon discovering and being influenced by some of the great Texas songwriters. In finding my voice in stories full of characters from everyday life my lyrics came to the forefront of my songs. SONGWRITING My song catalog of originals is well now over a hundred songs at this point. You will find elements of rock, country, folk and blues on my albums and on stage. You want to know who I am? Listen to my lyrics. I am right there hiding in plain sight.See if you can figure out who I am, what I am talking about through the characters, the stories.See if you can tell the truth from the lie. The auto biographical from the completely fictitious. Find yourself in the songs and stories. Make connections to a specific line, a name, a place.Isn't that what a song is supposed to do? Create a dialogue between the song and the listener? Transporting us back in time, whenever we hear it, to that moment we heard it the first time.I want to touch you with my lyric....make a difference. My words nestling into your emotion.