ABOUT KAT ROBICHAUD

Kat Robichaud prowls around the stage- a hellcat unleashed, furious to have been confined in southern 90s suburbia stasis. With various wigs and rock warrior whimsy, she shrieks catharsis that at once stops and rushes the blood of anyone within earshot of her siren song. Part Janis, part Bette, part Mama Cass- Robichaud writes murder ballads, broadway pop songs about anxiety, and neo-wave rock and roll on anything from alien sex to gaslighting puppeteers. Existing in many forms- sometimes host of her hit musical variety show Misfit Cabaret, sometimes drag artist twirling her pearls in the spotlight of gay sex clubs, Robichaud feels most at home among her fellow queerdos, rattling off current hyperfixations and sipping whiskey with the stunning underground Bay Area artists who survived the gorging promises of corporations in late-stage capitolism. She's a hell of a show woman and has had 20 years of stage time to prove it. It doesn't matter if she's singing in a southern chain chicken joint, a 1,500 seat theater in Times Square, a painted plywood speakeasy, or in front of 15 million people watching her on The Voice- she will get your attention and hold it like she'll die if she chooses to let go. And you hope she never will. 

What fans say about Kat and her music:

“It’s like if a pansexual vampire got lost in a candy factory and then sang about their experience.” - Mari Cohn

“Esoteric, eclectic, and radically inclusive.” - Mike Woolson

“Relatable, energetic, story telling and wonderful.” - Mikey Strider

“Like opening a nostalgic book from your childhood and realizing that you’ve become the characters as an adult. Through whimsy and fault, expressing each aspect with grace, strength and wisdom.” - Jonathan Ryan

“Music made for dancing vicariously in the dark to.” - Szczepan Wincenty Zwolinski

“It sounds like what you always wished a bawdy little cabaret would sound like.” - John Bejarano

“Elements of rock, cabaret, and theatrical. It has an edgy quality with dramatic flair and a hint of punk.” - Scott Brunner

ABOUT MISFIT CABARET

For 9 years, Kat Robichaud's Misfit Cabaret has wowed and warmed the foggy heart of San Francisco with their raucous punk cabaret band of Darling Misfits, bringing the scandalous and subversive underground performance scene to the respectable and resplendent theaters of the Bay Area. The lighthearted debauchery and decadence is steered by queer femme partners Jordan Nathan and Kat Robichaud, with Robichaud hosting and writing original music for each new show. The Darling Misfits range from burlesque to drag to circus arts to deranged puppets- all dedicated to their craft and playing nice within the parameters of the show's framed narrative- a variety show within a rock musical. But The Darling Misfits could not be contained to the Barbary Coast, and have since spilled into Seattle, Salem, Portland, and Los Angeles- discovering new misfits to wrangle and rhinestone to the delight of the denizen masses. Wherever Misfit Cabaret goes, they leave in their wake a sense of remembering what it was like to be a child- when the world wasn't quite yet at your feet, and your nights were left to dreaming.