About the Musician
Natalie is a singer-songwriter and an experienced performer who plays a mixture of original and cover tunes. A familiar face at many local open mics, Natalie accompanies herself with the full sound of her twelve-string guitar. She includes the occasional percussion interlude or harmonica solo for variety, and will start adding extra instruments to her act just as soon as she grows an extra pair of hands. Her style of music is eclectic and is informed by a variety of genres including swing, jazz and blues, but she focuses particularly on country and folk-rock.
Natalie is available for hire and is capable of providing her own amplification for small venues. You can get a better idea of the kind of music she plays by clicking here. Or you can hear her with Mark Rose Big Band, where Natalie has played trombone and vocals since 2004.
About the Writer
Because choosing just one unlikely profession wouldn't be any fun, Natalie also writes fiction. While she focuses mostly on fantasy, she likes to genre-hop (and even medium-hop) as much as the next person: she also writes literary and science fiction, and she writes stage dramas when she's feeling adventerous. Natalie's writing has appeared many places in the local community: her short story "Just and Only" appeared in the December 2010 issue of Other: _____ Magazine (Okanagan College), and her short fiction has appeared in numerous editions of UBC Okanagan's Paper Shell anthology. Most recently, her work appeared in White Uncovered, a multi-media magazine dedicated to exploring white privilege, launched at UBC-Okanagan in March 2011 and currently available online. She also has an article forthcoming from Okanagan Arts magazine.
Natalie is also well-acquainted with editorial work. She spent two years on the editorial team for Paper Shell and acted as an editor as well as a contributor for the White Uncovered magazine. Natalie has also done copy-editing work for Dr. Rod Densmore's FASD Relationships: What I Have Learned About Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and is currently a co-moderator of the online critique group Reading Excuses.
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