Martha Reich

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Award-winning Santa Fe-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Martha Reich has performed at venues around the world. Her music transcends tradition and language in a way that is moving, honest, and rare. Each song feels as though she's written it just for you--to tell you something important about life.

Reich has released five albums. Her most recent multi-instrumental CD, ‘BRAVE BIRD’ won a Gold Medal for Female Vocalist in the 2018 Global Music Awards and LA Critics Award for Best Folk Artist.

"With a sound almost woven out of the earth, Reich sings from the brittle openings of the heart. To take in the art that comes from such a place opens up our lives in ways that are impossible to measure but so important to hold onto.”  - James Diaz, ANTI-HEROIN CHIC MAGAZINE
 

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Award-winning Santa Fe-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Martha Reich has performed at venues around the world. Her music transcends tradition and language in a way that is moving, honest, and rare. Each song feels as though she's written it just for you--to tell you something important about life.

Originally from New England, she received a BFA in illustration, but music called and she relocated to Santa Fe in 1999 where she has since released five CDs including the award-winning album titled BRAVE BIRD.

Her 2018 release, Brave Bird, was described as “stunning and heartbreaking” by Americana Highways and earned her a Gold Medal for Female Vocalist in the 2018 Global Music Awards, as well as the LA Critics Award for Best Folk Artist. Often compared to Joan Baez and Judy Collins. Reich is deeply inspired by nature and her unique style features an honesty and vulnerability that evokes “a sound almost woven out of the earth.” She is often joined on recordings by longtime friend and collaborator, cellist Michael Kott, who “presents the cello as a portrayal of infinite compassion…telling stories outside time and place.” 

Marthaʼs songs possess exquisite poetry, capturing the depth of personal and universal subjects while tapping into something true and real for all that listen deeply with their minds as well as hearts. Inspired by the contradictions of everyday life; Anchored by the truth and beauty of natureʼs elements, Martha is an authentic troubadour. She delivers her songs with beauty, intelligence, and honesty that gives new meaning to similar moments in our own lives.

Reich was awarded Indie Music Channel Awards in 2025, 2022 and 2020, the 2019 New Mexico Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Song FADE AWAY, Clouzine International Music Awards for Best Indie Album BRAVE BIRD, and Best Acoustic Folk Song THE LETTERS. She’s won Global Music Awards in 2022, 2017 and 2016, The Southwest Independent Music Award in 2015, and 2014 New Mexico Music Award for Best Folk Song “I’D RATHER BE SURPRISED”. 

From her five releases, 'Peter Pan Says' and 'I know a place' were placed in the Independent film 'Piece by Peace'.
Her instrumental version 'Ballad of Buddha Blue' is found on 'Gregg Braden's MUSIC from THE DIVINE MATRIX'.

Martha music is available via iTunes, Spotify, AppleMusic, BandCamp and Pandora Radio, as well receives Radio Airplay. 

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...

"With a sound almost woven out of the earth, Reich sings from the brittle openings of the heart. To take in the art that comes from such a place opens up our lives in ways that are impossible to measure but so important to hold onto." - James Diaz, Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine. 

"Martha Reich’s 'BRAVE BIRD' is Stunning and Heartbreaking. Pulsing, yet sparse instrumentation coupled with hypnotic verses of a quiet yearning spin into the call for something new and the hope that it promises..."
- Jason Davidson of Americana Highways

"Reich has a beautiful tone to her vocals, clear and crisp. She spins her poetic songs akin to a spider weaving its web, so subtle and poetic. Her version of “Over the Rainbow” is as you would expect, as delicate as a flower in bloom. Reich’s guitar work, coupled with cello and JQ Whitcomb’s trumpet set it off in style.  - Maurice Hope, Flyingshoes Review

“Martha Reich sings with the fierce vocal Grace of a James Taylor and the Soulful emotion of a Judy Collins. Perspective words, combined with penetrating sounds, emanate from Martha's acoustic guitar, sure to reverberate the Heartstrings of any awakened Soul.”
- Kimberley Ashley, Fashion & Textile Designer

Her deep roots in traditional folk and storytelling shine through each and every one of her original works. Ira Gordon—Host of Santa Fe's KBAC radio—calls Martha "the closet thing to Joni Mitchell that Santa Fe has."

“I love your music” ... Sam Shepard, Playwright and Actor.

" Martha's music transcends tradition and language in a way that is moving, honest, and rare. Each song feels as though she's written it just for you--to tell you something important about life". ... Gregg Braden, NY Times bestselling author

“ Martha Reich has a great voice. She is flat out open and honest, and just a bit mesmerizing." ...J.W. McClure, Victory Music Review