Katharine Whalen

Katharine Whalen is a musician, singer, and songwriter originally from Greenville, North Carolina. She contributed vocals, banjo, and ukulele as a member of the Chapel Hill jazz band Squirrel Nut Zippers, a group that she founded in 1993 with then-husband Jimbo Mathus.

After the breakup of Squirrel Nut Zippers, Whalen released an album on Mammoth called Katharine Whalen's Jazz Squad. She took part in revival Zippers revival tours during the years 2007–09. Since then she has been a member of the bands Swedish Wood Patrol and Certain Seas.

Solo discography

• Katharine Whalen's Jazz Squad (Mammoth Records, 1999)
• Dirty Little Secret (M.C. Records, 2006)
• Madly Love (Five Head Entertainment, 2011)
• Whaler's Ink (with Brian Risk, as Risk Whalen, 2014)
• To Hide a Heart That's Blue (2021)

References

1. Squirrel Nut Zippers
2. The Inevitable (album)
3. Hot (Squirrel Nut Zippers album)
4. Perennial Favorites
5. Olivier Libaux
6. The 6ths
7. Music of Hair
8. Roasted Right
9. Jimbo Mathus
10. Bedlam Ballroom
11. Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire
12. Richard Bertram
13. Thrills (Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire album)
14. Sings Some Ol' Songs
15. Greenville, North Carolina
16. Hyacinths and Thistles
17. My Baby Just Cares for Me
18. Camus (musician)
19. Hopscotch Music Festival
20. Sold Out (Squirrel Nut Zippers album)