Musician
My music blends Celtic Traditional, folk, bluegrass and punk into a genre I lovingly call “feral folk.” As a solo artist, my songs explore grief, joy, queerness, rage, intergenerational trauma, and collisions with a ghost or two. Over the last decade I released 4 LP's, 2 EP's, and original music for television and film, most notably MTV & Lifetime. In 2024 I won the Kerrville New Folk Contest, an award bestowed to two of my songwriting heroes, Adrianne Lenker and Anaïs Mitchell, and in 2016, I was the youngest musician to ever be inducted into the Grammy’s San Francisco chapter. For fourteen years I’ve toured internationally, including as part of the Americana Proud Showcase (First LGBT Showcase at Americana Fest, 2023), Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (2019, 2023), and Lincoln Center Out of Doors (2017).
Sweet Pea (2023)
Not Yet (2021, EP)
Leave Me Be (2020)
Have a Look (2017, EP)
The Hollows Hold the Healing (2016)
Lucille (2015)
oompapa
oompapa is a trio project featuring musicians Noga Cabo (they/she), Yi-Mei Templeman (she/her) and Lila Blue (they/them). Playing a mixture of cello, banjo, piano and guitar, their music oscillates between folk, classical and alternative pop. The trio generates complex and poignant three-part harmonies on songs about cultural assimilation (“Mother Tongue”), loss of faith (“kindgod”), kismet (“Fate Complex”), and vengeance spurred by friendship breakups (“Lego”).
In 2021, all three were invited to perform in a songwriting showcase curated by Broadway director, Tina Landau — Cabo & Templeman as a duo, and Blue as a solo act. They became fast friends. In 2024 the trio went to a old stone house by a lake and oompapa was born. oompapa’s first EP is set for release in 2026.
Music for Film & TV
MTV/Viacom, Each and Every Day, Original Music, 2021
Lifetime Originals, Story of A Girl, “Kill All The Witnesses,” 2017
Lake Lucille Chekhov Project, I AM A SEAGULL, “Blow Away,” 2015
Lucian Patton, LUCKY AND POZZO, “I Woke Up,” 2021
Lucian Patton, FUGUE, Original Music, 2024
Healing Tree Productions, The Knock Shadow, “all i wanted was a garden,” 2025
