Cat Terrones

 We all need a lighthouse when we can’t see the shoreline. For songmaker Cat Terrones, songs are beacons to guide us through life’s fog and haze. Her album, Shelter In Our Beauty, (June 2025) is a series of signal fires: reminders to trust when you don’t feel hope, to keep walking even if you can’t see where you’re going. Anchored by twin guitars and rustic harmonies, the music sounds more rural than Laurel Canyon but more expansive than an Appalachian valley. There are songs about personal and collective upheaval, like “Give Back Rain,” a lament about sea-level rise penned just before the 100-year flood in Lyons, Colorado. Terrones’ artful and ardent lyrics are populated by the natural world — thunderous oak trees, the smoky scent of creosote in the desert, the wildflower blooms in springtime. Inspired by her Welsh and Irish  heritage, Terrones sees these earthly delights not as mere scenery but as animate characters that shape her stories and her songs. 

Terrones was a finalist at Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Singer-Songwriter Competition, LEAF New Song Contest and Kerrville New Folk Competition. She has released two EPs, Bright and Far Away (2024) and Forget Me Not (2014). She’s played countless coffeehouses and performed at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and showcased at Folk Alliance.