Singer, songwriter, keyboard, and washboard player who just released a nine-song album last month and did an album release event for it in Nashville. The new album has already hit #80 on the Americana charts, plus it has been getting airplay in Europe. Based in Music City, she even already has a five-song EP in the pipeline. Her music journey has seen her go from dance rock band to DJ to Americana to what she now calls Honky Tonk Cabaret, although it is said that her new album leans bluegrass in spirit. She even has a show coming up in May in Australia. Previously, she was in a band called Catfish Seminar.
“My catchphrase has always been evolve or die, which is sort of a more brutal way to say the ground is changing.”
“I have probably a cache of like 60 songs that I'm drawing from, which is cool but sometimes it makes you feel like you can't write new ones. But I'm always writing.”
“I thought that band was going to be my journey and when I quit doing that and I broke up that relationship I had to start completely over, and I had to build something new.”
“I'm a performer, that's probably my number one is performer, then singer, then writer. Those are my top three; so, making the stage show big is my favorite part.”
“I always have to have some sort of spectacle or surprise in every single show.”
“That is one of my favorite things is figuring out how I can make each song a little different every time we play it.”
“Dabbled in some little bands in college… up in Chicago started a dance rock band and we put out an EP … that was a very fun project and then after that I started DJ-ing. I got into the party scene and played bars, played parties, and just really got into, I mean, dancing was a huge part of my life so I would go dancing a lot and I just loved making people dance.”
“The cool thing about washboard is you can play it however you want. Everybody makes up their own style really.”
“What I love about bluegrass is it's like a living breathing organism. We are all one and everybody just somehow changes at the same time and goes into a different vibe and a different feel.”
“I had stopped DJ-ing in Chicago, I was just kind of livin’, I was bartending and really wasn't in music too much at that moment in time and I think I started to die inside to be totally honest. And then I joined a friend’s band as a background singer and got up on stage again for the first time in years and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, this is it for me.’ And started my own band.”
“When I found Americana, I was like this is where I belong. This is me.”
“For anybody who's looking to grow their social media and their community, I highly recommend going live on TikTok; it's good, it's fun.”
“It's all about just taking it in stride and doing a little bit at a time, which is sort of what you have to do in this town anyway because it is such a hustle and there's so many moving parts to a music career.”
“Teardrop Island”
“Fly Away”