This twenty-one year old Scottish singer-songwriter has been making music on both sides of the Atlantic for as long as anyone who knows her can remember. Her childhood was spent jumping back and forward between Scotland, Ireland, and Oregon, and with music always as a constant, this young musician has been able to craft songs which reflect all the corners of the globe where she has called home.

Her teenage years were spent just outside of Portland, Oregon where she continued to develop her childhood love of music & performance. After a stint in the professional world of musical theatre in Portland - one which earned her a Portland Area Musical Theatre Award (PAMTA) for Best Young Performer in 2008, she shifted her focus to songwriting. Theatre led her to Quarterflash's Marv Ross, who - along with fellow band member & sound engineer extraordinaire, Gregg Williams - helped produce McDade's deput studio EP Unwritten Plans, a four song EP released in 2013 during her senior year in high school. Before heading off to study at Oregon State University, McDade frequently played at local events around her community. Her first two years at Oregon State University saw her playing around the local Corvallis venues and continuing to write.

Scotland got her back during her third year at university. Her year immersed in the music culture of Glasgow was incredibly influential on both her songwriting and instrumentality. During this year, her songwriting began to reflect her admiration of the folk music of the American sixties, drawing influences from the likes of Dave Van Ronk, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen. These influences can be heard in her lyricism, melodies, and in the intricate travis-picking & guitar work which drive her songs.

After her year of writing & recording an album's worth of songs in a demo titled Songs I Wrote in Scotland, McDade returned to Oregon to graduate from Oregon State in 2017. However, her songs have garnered airplay on both sides of the Atlantic, most notably on BBC Radio Scotland's 'Roddy Hart Show'. McDade continues to perform around the Willamette Valley. She is currently based in Salem.

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