A pure voice is a rare find and Theresa Peterson has found hers, both as a singer and a songwriter. Her smooth tone echoes the ease of singers like Joni Mitchell and Alison Krauss, floating between octaves with melodies that stretch the line between old and new. Peterson's songs have been called "achingly beautiful" with themes that call up our deepest dreams and nostalgias.
A native Texan and a lifelong musician, starting out on violin at age 3 and writing songs since childhood, Peterson claims songs flooded out of her after moving to Colorado in 2014. The call to move west was ever present and it's now apparent why. After finding her way back to herself and pouring back into her music, she discovered her true voice as well as a passion for creating community. She founded, hosted, and curated Boulder In-the-Round, a monthly singer-songwriter showcase at eTown which ran for 5 years and brought together 4 local singer-songwriters every month in front of an audience of local music lovers.
Peterson has been taking her genre of DreamAmericana to the next level beginning in 2020 with a string of self-recorded, self-produced singles entitled Quiet Sides. After releasing these singles, with the pandemic in full swing and nothing keeping her tied down in Colorado, Peterson hit the road in June of 2020. Not knowing where she would end up, she traveled the roads of the north back and forth through Montana, Idaho, and Washington for the summer. Wheels turning on the road and in her mind, slowly processing the miles she had been through in recent years, she wrote constantly. The songs she wrote on this journey eventually became No Rules in Montana (July 2021), an album written for the people and place that so graciously took her in and made a place for her at a time when she didn't know where to belong. If ever there was an anthem for Peterson's music, this album and title track might be it, although it may be an overture to the work that's yet to come.
After returning to Colorado, Peterson released Nylon, a small gathering of songs recorded on her childhood guitar on a whim in the winter of 2024. In 2025, Peterson spent the month of June in Galway, Ireland at Watershed Artist Residency. Inspired by the natural beauty of the country, the slower pace of days, and the community of artists in Ireland and at the residency, she wrote 11 songs and recorded 6 there, releasing her album Ireland / Watershed in September of 2025.