Olivia Rafferty

“Olivia's songs are Wes Andersonia for the ears.”- Findlay Napier

“There is a maturity in both her voice and her writing” - Folking.com

Olivia Rafferty is a songwriter, podcaster, poet and artist hailing from North-East Scotland. Her debut album Typical Forever is a concept album about geology, funded by the Geologists’ Association. This record was featured on Times Radio, RTÉ Radio 1, and BBC Radio London, and Olivia has performed exclusive shows at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Geological Society headquarters in London.

Her last name may be familiar to some, as Olivia shares her family tree with ‘Baker Street’ songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Growing up on a diet of power-pop and Americana, she started songwriting under the influence of troubadours such as Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen, although her sound came into focus through the indie-folk catalog of her 2000’s iTunes library, with artists such as Regina Spektor played on repeat. What results are songs that hum with an Americana warmth, yet playfully sparkle with unlikely subject matter and the occasional Casio keyboard cameo.