Whether you’ve heard her piano work on Zach Bryan’s American Heartbreak album or Mitski’s intensely musical art rock albums (The Land is Mostly Inhospitable and So Are We and Laurel Hell), piano is the planet on which Waggoner lives. Some days it’s exploring Avantgarde improvised live piano as a member of the former The Great Aspirations of Sun Conductor. Or maybe you’ve seen her on the road playing keys with iconic musicians such as Jack White. His albums Blunderbuss and Lazaretto feature her piano and key stylings. Piano work on Cody Jinks’ raucous outlaw country covers or Beck’s revolutionary Song Reader album showcase her playing. And her work as a session player & singer can also be heard on numerous albums including Sleeping At Last, Pokey Lafarge, Scott Mulvahill, and The Whistles & The Bells.

In the realm of SOLO singer-songwriter, she’s had extensive touring experience opening shows and sharing bills with artists such as Jacob Collier, Ron Sexsmith, Wilco, The Hold Steady, Toto, Bell X1, Owl City, Teitur, Rocky Votolato, Owen, Paper Route, Copeland, Jars of Clay, and KyeKye to name a few.

Waggoner’s lovely collection of songs are built solidly on her piano-based melodic sweetness and confident voice, but Waggoner adorns them with bold brass and a bevy of rhythmic trickery.
— Entertainment Weekly

To call Brooke Waggoner a versatile musician would be an understatement: She is a classically trained pianist in singer-songwriter clothes. Waggoner’s voice exists in an ethereal place somewhere between orchestral folk, pared-down electro pop and the modern torch song.
— The Washington Post