[Bcma-l] Tamara Nile plays AGSO (Penticton) Feb. 28

[bcma-l@museumsassn.bc.ca]

*NEWS RELEASE

For immediate release

February 23, 2007

Contact: Paul Crawford, Director/Curator
*The Art Gallery of the South Okanagan
Phone: (250) 493-2928
E-mail: agso_curator@shawbiz.ca

*Tamara Nile In Concert at Art Gallery of the South Okanagan

*BC’s own rising folk music star, Tamara Nile, will be picking and 
singing at the Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, 7 pm on Wednesday, 
February 28 in the main gallery.

Born into music on Galiano Island, BC, Nile was raised by a musician and 
visual artist mother, and her father, a street musician known as Dan The 
Man, The One Man Band. From age five until she was fifteen or so, she 
spent her school holidays travelling around with her dad from Vancouver 
to Victoria to Venice Beach to Australia. She learned balloon-twisting 
to be his clown sidekick, eventually trading in the Harpo Marx-style 
horn for a banjo and a guitar. She soon developed an appreciation for a 
wide variety of musical traditions, and it wasn’t long before she was 
writing her own music and jamming with her family to old reggae, soul, 
blues, jazz and standards.

After studying Jazz and Classical Voice and Composition in Vancouver, T. 
Nile hit the road again, performing solo in Europe and Japan. Her canvas 
is splashed with the colours of roots artists as diverse as Gillian 
Welch, Bob Marley, and Doc Bogs.

Nile recently won a Canadian Folk Music Award in the Best New/Emerging 
Artist category, and a brief listen to her banjo-driven tunes 
accompanied by her ambrosial voice makes it easy to see why.

Tamara Nile writes and performs a kind of hard-core, sweet folk that has 
captivated audiences from Australia to India. Whether playing solo on 
the guitar or banjo, or with her four-piece ensemble, Vancouver-based 
Tamara Nile’s music and crystal voice tingles spines, grabs hearts and 
holds on.

“Like fresh-planed cedar, T.Nile’s clawhammer stark music is nicely 
redolent of the west coast. If her rootsy EP is anything to go by, Nile 
may find herself and her much anticipated debut album dragged kicking 
from out behind the woodpile and into the front parlor mainstream. It’s 
happened before,” writes John P. McLaughlin in /The Province/, Vancouver.

Tickets for Tamara Nile’s AGSO concert are $15 for gallery members and 
$20 for non-members. To reserve your tickets or for more information, 
please contact Paul Crawford at the Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, 
(250) 493-2928.

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