Nadia Reid embarks on an extensive three-week tour starting in Christchurch on 8 June with a collection of new and much loved songs. This second national tour sees Reid return to her acoustic roots and is joined by fiddle player, and The Eastern’s, Flora Knight. Together Reid and Knight play fifteen venues on a whirlwind trip to major centres and smaller towns like Oamaru and Wairau Valley, featuring the odd local guest or two.
Adam McGrath, from The Eastern, describes Nadia’s music. ‘Sometimes the Song is the Easy Part. Listening to Nadia it seems that way, they appear (on stage and on record) fully formed, alive in the world, born and crafted with a weight that belies an author’s young age. Maybe it’s because Nadia sounds more than a singer and more than a songwriter. She sounds like a worker, one who cares for her craft and the path in which she intends to take it. Her songs shape and turn and lie carved in the air, they carry your ear and lift your eye to the back of the room, the corner of your heart and the world outside your window but sometimes that’s not enough. Sometimes the song is the easy part. To make them live you have to give them out, send or carry them into the world. That’s the hard work, and that’s where you find a writer’s gift, their true worth. Nadia carries those songs and the moments they create, like water from a well, like a thing to care about. If you’re a listener then you can trust her, it helps to know she refuses to take it lightly and will work as hard as she wants you listen.’
All tour dates in June:
FRIDAY 8
darkroom, christchurch
SATURDAY 9
the national, dunedin
SUNDAY 10
loan & merc, oamaru – day show
new edinburgh folk club (the church), dunedin
WEDNESDAY 13
harbour street theatrette, oamaru
THURSDAY 14
wunderbar, lyttelton harbour
FRIDAY 15
dharma bums club, wairau valley
SATURDAY 16
everyman records live in store, nelson – day show
the freehouse, nelson
WEDNESDAY 20
le cafe, picton
THURSDAY 21
meow, wellington
FRIDAY 22
matinee, new plymouth
SATURDAY 23
the wine cellar, auckland
SUNDAY 24
golden dawn tavern of power, auckland
