VIDEO: Sask. singer brings ‘thunderstorm voice’ to P.A.

While Nash enjoys singing some classic country, she doesn’t market her own music as country-style.

“Let’s be honest, the classic country music isn’t really considered country by today’s standards,” said Nash. “If I do flirt with the country genre, it’s more of a traditional, alternative country sense.”

Speaking of her influences, Nash says she listens to a lot of Neko Case, Leonard Cohen and Patsy Cline.

Nash added that many people have compared her to the likes of Ryder.

“She’s extremely talented, and I do really like her vocal stylings too, and she knows how to write a really good song.”

And Nash said that there’s one other Canadian artist that she was quite excited to open for.

“I did get to open for Amelia Curran, she’s a fantastic Canadian songwriter,” said Nash. “She was very humble, very down to earth, and we were both playing the same venues at the same shows, and it was just nice to meet somebody whose career you admire, and they’re nice.”

Nash has been working hard to bring her career to the next level, and she not only writes and sings, she manages herself as well.

“I used to be embarrassed about that, I feel like sometimes in the music industry independent artists need to create separate entities so it looks like other people are on their team,” said Nash. “But I’m kind of taking the opposite approach right now and thinking no I do, do this all by myself.”

All bookings and publicity go directly through Nash.

“What I’ve been doing is pairing up with other artists,” said Nash. “There is no middle-man right now, and right now I’m still quite comfortable with that.”

Recently, Nash released her newest album Song Harvest: Volume One, and her talent has begun to garner some national attention.

“Exclaim.ca, a very well-respected music blog, they streamed my album in advance to its release and reviewed it,” said Nash. “Things like that are starting to come together for me, and I feel like it’s starting to become more of a national reach instead of provincial.”

While she’s excited to reach that national stage of audience, she’s not leaving Saskatchewan anytime soon.

“Saskatchewan has been very supportive of me, and I do really feel like there is an advantage to being an artist in Saskatchewan,” said Nash. “I don’t know how many times I’ve been asked why aren’t you going to Vancouver, or why don’t you go to Toronto, or why don’t you go to these larger centres, and I’m quite content here in Saskatchewan.”

Aside from all the recent attention, Nash remains humble about her career.

“There is an element of fame that needs to be associated with doing something like this, I just say that my goal is I want to be able to do this full-time comfortably,” said Nash. “I really am quite content with my life.”

Tickets are $20 and are available at the Arts Centre or call 306-953-4811 for more details; the opening act will be The Wolfe.

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by James Bowler

VIDEO: Sask. singer brings ‘thunderstorm voice’ to P.A.

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