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Nancy Harms
In a relatively short time, Nancy Harms has distinguished herself as one of the most uniquely gifted young jazz vocalists on the East Coast. Born and raised in the tiny Midwestern town of Clara City, Minnesota, Nancy had no exposure to jazz as a child, no connections to the music via family or education. Though she was singing for small public gatherings by the age of four, it wasnt until attending Concordia College in Moorhead, MN that Harms discovered jazz.
Though this discovery would change her life, Nancy made no immediate decision to pursue a jazz-performing career after college. Instead, she taught elementary music in another small Minnesota town for a few years; a move that was more along the lines of what was expected of a girl from Clara City. Nancy ultimately became disillusioned and discontented, however, and within her grew the conviction that another kind of musical life was awaiting her. She followed her instinct and her passion, left her teaching career, and moved to Minneapolis in 2006.
she engages the listener by seeming to put her whole soul completely forwardafter hearing her just once, youll never want to let her go.
Will Friedwald, The Wall Street Journal
Nancys career in NYC began with a sold-out appearance in the summer of 2010 at the Bar Next Door on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, with classy accompaniment by former Minnesotan Michael OBrien on bass and NY guitar legend Paul Bollenback. Observable at this or any other engagement since is Harms highly original physical presence; always in motion, yet always in service of the music and telling the story. The beautiful face is animated, but not overly so. There is mystery there, with abundant smiles and good humor, but the occasional flash of something untold; a sudden downward tightening of the mouth and far-away focus of the eyes She seems to draw upon a passing sense-memory to more effectively convey the feeling of the lyric. Often, its a sense of hurt, or the pain of long ago; artfully intermingling with the good humor and inviting warmth of Nancys overall persona.
Nancys dedication to jazz is complete. She is abundantly gifted, and her interpretations reveal her to be a fine actor as well, as she possesses a natural ability to movingly express the meaning of any song. A gifted jazz specialist and an intuitively brilliant interpretive artist.
Her first CD In The Indigo put her on 140 radio and cable outlets in dozens of markets, and top sales on the CDBaby Jazz vocal chart. The CD received national airplay on PRIs JAZZ AFTER HOURS, NPR, THE PENTHOUSE RADIO NETWORK, and MUSIC CHOICE via satellite, cable and internet. Nancys follow-up disc, Dreams In Apartments, was even more successful, airing on the above (and other) sources, including Jonathan Schwartzs broadcasts, and on the PopJazzRadio.com channel which placed one of Nancys original songs, Weight Of The World, in the #1 position on two separate occasions with over 44,000 votes from fans. Nancy went on to celebrate the release of Dreams In Apartments at New York Citys venerable BIRDLAND, as well as to share the albums success with audiences in Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Oslo, and Paris.
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LocationTHE DUNSMORE ROOM at Crooners Lounge and Supper Club (View)
6161 Hwy 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
United States
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