Vonda Shepard Returns to the Kate November 23rd

Press release

OLD SAYBROOK, CT - The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, “the Kate”, welcomes award-winning singer-songwriter Vonda Shepard on Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 7:30 pm.

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Vonda Shepard has sold over twelve million albums, won two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild awards, and is most notably the writer and performer of the original Searchin’ My Soul, the theme song for Ally McBeal. She also holds the Billboard prize for selling the most TV soundtracks in history.

Vonda began playing clubs at the age of fourteen and was signed to Reprise Records at 24, where her Don’t Cry Ilene became a VH1 hit topping out at #11. In 1986, Vonda had a major pop hit singing Can’t We Try in a duet with Dan Hill that made it to #6 on the Pop Charts. It was during these early years as a successful indie performer that she toured with such luminaries as Rickie Lee Jones, Al Jarreau and Jackson Browne as either back-up singer or keyboardist.

Vonda’s most demanding work was on Ally McBeal as music producer, where her hit theme song, Searchin’ My Soul reached #16 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. For nearly five years she produced over 500 songs for artists like Al Green, Sting, Randy Newman, Robert Downey Jr., Jon Bon Jovi, Gladys Knight, Chubby Checker, Barry Manilow and many more. Vonda now tours with her stellar band, whose all-star line-up has alternately featured musicians that have played with Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, John Hiatt and Jackson Browne to name a few.

For information and tickets, visit www.thekate.org or call 860-510-0453.