KAT PARSONS
Songs about parenthood, grief, enduring love, and the beautiful complexity of being alive
The Sweetness is Now
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 25, 2026
ABOUT
Kat Parsons is an award-winning singer-songwriter, licensed clinical social worker, and couples therapist whose new EP, The Sweetness Is Now, is her first new music in thirteen years.
Earlier in her career, Parsons toured across four continents and released four critically acclaimed records. She shared stages with Billy Corgan and, early in their careers, Sara Bareilles and Katy Perry. Her music has been featured on MTV, VH1, and the Food Network and covered by The Washington Post, Billboard, and The Boston Globe.
Parsons won Best Female Artist in the International Acoustic Music Awards and has been a finalist and semifinalist in the International Songwriting Competition. Over the course of her career, fans independently funded nearly $40,000 in recordings.
THE STORY BEHIND THE SWEETNESS THE NOW
Earlier in her career, Parsons toured across four continents, building a devoted following as an independent artist. Then she made a choice that surprised even her.
She stopped organizing her life around music.
Not because she loved it less, but because she wanted other things just as much.
She wanted to build a family. She was fortunate to be a mother, and parenthood changed her in ways she never expected. It reshaped her understanding of love, her relationship with time, and the questions she found herself writing about. Around the same time, she became a couples therapist, spending her days listening to people's deepest hopes, heartbreaks, and attempts to love each other well.
As her life changed, so did the things she wanted to write about.
She kept writing, but without another album in mind. She wrote about the ridiculous joy and bone-deep exhaustion of parenting, the anxiety of getting it wrong, pregnancy loss, children growing up, falling more deeply in love, and what it means to love something you know you cannot keep.
She had to live these songs first.
The songs became a way of making sense of the enormous, ordinary experiences that filled those years, and of noticing the sweetness that exists alongside life's hardest moments.
Those songs became The Sweetness Is Now, a collection shaped less by ambition than by experience.
The title comes from an idea Parsons keeps returning to: how easy it is to imagine the sweetness waiting somewhere on the other side of the hard parts. But there may be no other side. The sweetness and the hard aren't simply happening at the same time; they are bound up in one another. Love makes loss possible, and the knowledge that something can be lost is part of what makes it precious. Joy, exhaustion, fear, grief, humor, and love do not arrive one at a time. They are intertwined, each giving meaning and weight to the others.
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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
International Acoustic Music Awards, Best Female Artist
Featured by Billboard, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Music Connection
Performed across four continents
Music featured on MTV, VH1, Style Network, and Food Network
Performed across four continents
Nearly $40,000 raised directly from fans to fund independent recordings
Interview Topics
The both/and of life
Joy and grief, exhaustion and gratitude, love and frustration don't necessarily take turns. The Sweetness Is Now grew out of Kat's fascination with what happens when we stop waiting for the hard parts to be over before allowing ourselves to notice what is good. What if the sweetness isn't on the other side of the mess, but bound up in it?
Loving motherhood AND finding parenting hard
Kat could love her children more than she knew it was possible to love anyone and still count the minutes until bedtime. Her song “Parenthood” lives inside that contradiction: the relentless, ridiculous pace of everyday life alongside the moments when everything stops because a small person puts their arms around you and your heart just about explodes. What happens when we stop trying to decide whether parenting is beautiful or hard, and allow it to be both?
The things women carry privately
“Fly Away,” written after Kat's own pregnancy loss, opens a larger conversation about experiences and choices around reproduction that women often carry privately: whether to have children, fertility struggles, pregnancy loss, how many children to have, and the complicated feelings that can accompany all of it. What changes when we make more room to talk about these experiences without assuming there is one right choice or one right way to feel?
Loving people you cannot protect
“Let My Love” grew out of Kat's realization that she couldn't protect her children from every hurt - and wasn't supposed to. To love someone deeply is to make yourself vulnerable to worry, change, separation, and loss. How do we reconcile the instinct to protect the people we love with the knowledge that struggle, risk, and letting go are part of loving them?
Being visible in midlife
What does it mean to return to recording in your late forties, in a culture that often associates female visibility with youth? Kat talks candidly about creativity, aging, perimenopause, and taking up space without needing to become younger, thinner, cooler, or more polished first.
Songwriting and couples therapy
As both a songwriter and a couples therapist, Kat spends much of her life paying attention to the things people struggle to say out loud. The settings couldn't be more different, but both begin with curiosity about love, fear, longing, loss, and connection. What can each discipline teach us about the other, and about the stories we tell ourselves and the people we love?
Making room for more than one dream
Kat didn't release a record for thirteen years. During those years she got married, became a mother of three, became a couples therapist, and kept writing. Now she's making room for music alongside the rest of a life she loves. This isn't a comeback or a reinvention. It's a conversation about whether a creative life has to be all-or-nothing.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Release Concert
October 3rd, 2026 at 7pm
Avalon Theatre
Easton, Maryland
An evening of new songs, old favorites, stories, laughter, and celebration
