Artist Bio

Rosemary Walks is a musician and songwriter from Cottage Grove, Oregon, whose music captures the tension between beauty and urgency — lush, untamed, and unflinchingly human. Her sound lives where indie rock collides with experimental textures, shaped by her emotive voice and instinct for atmosphere that feels both intimate and cinematic.
Influenced by artists like Feist, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, and Phantogram, Rosemary explores the raw terrain of the heart — heartbreak, personal and spiritual growth, and the alchemy that transforms pain into meaning. “I’m writing to process energy,” she says, “the energy created by the lived experience of love, loss, and the mystery of life.”
Her creative home is National Freedom Studio in Cottage Grove, founded by the late Richard Swift. There, she assists in the daily life of the studio and collaborates closely in production of her recorded work with Christopher Colbert — the renowned engineer known for his work with The Walkmen and Leon Bridges — to record and refine her evolving sound.
Her self-titled debut EP (2023) introduced her as a distinct voice in the indie landscape — cinematic yet deeply personal. Her follow-up Inchoate (2025) leaned further into emotional experimentation, layering vulnerability with sonic intensity. Beyond her own releases, Rosemary has contributed vocals to The Slip’s Eisenhower, Peter Matthew Bauer's Liberation, and Matt Nice and The Derls’ Handsome Boy Market, and Marco Benevento's record Swift.
Looking ahead, Rosemary is developing her third release for 2026 alongside a series of reimagined covers rolling out through 2025. Across all her work runs a steady thread — a belief in music as a vessel for transformation, a bridge between emotion and understanding, and a living dialogue with the unseen forces that shape our lives.