“Claire finds inspiration in the desert and at her restaurant, it’s her ‘storytelling laboratory’…On the surface, she’s checking reservations and greeting customers, but, behind the eyes, she’s a collector of anything she can use in her songs.”
C’est Claire is the nom de plume for singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Claire Wadsworth, a California high desert resident and owner/operator of the highly acclaimed Flamingo Height’s restaurant, La Copine.
With the recent release of the restaurant’s Cookbook, Claire felt compelled to continue the story and took to the studio with her favorite musicians in the High Desert to make the Songs of La Copine. Claire is releasing the music as a series of 4 EP’s out at the start of each season in 2026. On the first EP, you’ll find the first song she wrote about Nikki, “Loving You", as well as her actual wedding vows titled, “Vows” and an ambitious cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Going To California” doing the song justice as it takes on a whole new meaning from the perspective of a woman singing it.
At Rancho de La Luna and Fireside Sound in Joshua Tree, Claire made the ‘Songs of La Copine’ with the brilliant, David Catching, Christopher Thorn, his son Devlin Thorn, along with Los Poncho Tones backing, and additional music by Wally Ingram, Bingo Richey, Barrett Martin, and more.
Drawn to music as a child, Claire began playing piano at age 4, barely able to stretch her fingers across the keys, she engaged in music throughout her teens, and went on to graduate with honors from Berklee College of Music, where she studied vocal performance, production, and songwriting. Claire performed at the commencement alongside Melissa Ethridge and Aretha Franklin. Once out of school, she was on a mission to “unlearn everything” and get back to her creative roots. She recorded her first EP Prelude (released 2010), which was featured in the documentary Bernadette and has opened for Kurt Vile, Missy Higgins, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Little Dragon, Japandroids, and more. She also performed with Good Old War, Days Away, Anthony Green, and more. Off to Los Angeles where Claire and her sister did a short stint on Season 3 of The Voice as a duo called The Wadsworth Sisters. She then worked at the legendary recording studio, The Village, and recorded background vocals with artists including Liz Phair and Ben Harper. Since moving to the desert, Claire has performed and/or recorded with Dave Catching (Rancho de la Luna), Mojave Lords, earthlings?, Chris Goss (Masters of Reality), Reuben and the Dark, The Ettes, and so many more.
Since her birth in Gothenburg, Sweden to a tapestry weaver and songwriter-turned-chemical-engineer, Claire has claimed many places as home, including New Jersey, Houston, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Pioneertown, The Mesa, and now Landers in the High Desert of California, where she lives with her wife, Nikki. Claire first met Nikki, a trained Chef, at a cabaret in 2009 and instantly fell in love. Later, they moved to California to legally get married. After a fated trip to Joshua Tree, they opened La Copine. They remain together, partners in business and in life, both supporting each other’s creative visions.