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Nicol Lischka

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"Open your heart and let her step in!"
Terry David Mulligan, CKUA Radio
"Lischka has the rare ability to convey an emotion and a sense of place in the same sonic syllable. Back Porch Light glows with goodness."
Cam Fuller, Star Phoenix
"A voice as big as the prairies itself."
Tom Wilson, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings
"It's not easy to set poetry to music, but you've done wonders here. You are a genuine artist."
Charles Simic, Poet Laureate of the U.S. Library of Congress
Ten years after her critically acclaimed debut Leaving for Omaha (you won't believe me) Nicol Lischka is back with her sophomore release. Having spent her days fulfilling obligations of domesticity and academia while sneaking in songs on scrap papers and midnights on the back porch, Nicol has lived the life of a true artist. Back Porch Light comes, in part, as a result of her receiving a $10,000 recording grant from a local radio station. Produced by Juno-award winning artist Jason Plumb (The Waltons), Back Porch Light resonates with that summer's intense and intriguing collaborations. From the gritty alchemy of "Half-dead Flies," to the sultry love song for a Saskatchewan farmer, "I Wanna," to the moonlit and enigmatic "Stone," a fate-twisted collaboration with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, the songs on Back Porch Light sweep you into beguiling places.
Nicol says "this CD is a testament to the power of committing yourself to your wildest dreams, however unrealistic they may seem initially - you eventually grow into them. And when you get tired and lose hope, as we all do sometimes. . . friends, strangers, people, angels just kinda show up and help out when you least expect it."
Back Porch Light is the follow-up to Lischka's critically acclaimed Leaving for Omaha. Over a two-year span she hit the road and embraced the serendipitous--support from PromoFact, VideoFact, FACTOR, nominations for two Prairie Music Awards, a Saskatchewan Showcase Award, and a performance at Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair in Edmonton. Now, Back Porch Light rides the swell of renewed interest in this intense and literate songwriter who goes straight for the heart.
Back Porch Light features Jason Plumb on electric guitar, mandolin, harmonica & banjo, Gord Smith on bass, Mike Thompson on drums, Jeff McLeod keys & accordion and Scott Patrick on electric."
Artist Management:
FedergreenEntertainment
271 Glenholme Avenue, Suite 3
Toronto, ON M6E 3C9
Tel: 416-898-3456
Email: [email protected]

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Member Since: 02/12/2006
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Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Nobody Finds Me MUSIC VIDEO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVeceLsBuR4 10 years ago I got a phone call from Director, Marc Simard to make a music video for one of my songs from my first CD "Leaving For Omaha." It wa...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:04:00 GMT

Leaving For Omaha MUSIC VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-jDQ9vvCE0 From Nicol Lischka's debut CD "Leaving For Omaha." The music video, Directed by Marc Simard was nominated for a Prairie Music Award & won a Sask...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:39:00 GMT

To the Extras in "Nobody Finds Me" video

Hello all of you, I have recently had a few requests from some of you who appeared in my music video "Nobody Finds Me" that aired on Much Music about 10 years ago. I just wanted to let you know that w...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:34:00 GMT

Nicol on CBC’s "Blue Sky" September 22nd

Tune into CBC One between 12 & 2 today (september 22nd) to hear more on my 2nd release Back Porch Light and recording with Jason Plumb.  
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:45:00 GMT

"A Case of Canadian Alt-Folk That Positively Rocks..." ***** by Tomas Mureika

It is fitting that a cover of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" is the defining track on this new Canadian alt-folkster's debut set, in that it tells you all you need to know:  Nicol Lischka is an aston...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:49:00 GMT

"somewhat of a secret" By Randy Pshebylo (CD Release review)

Nicol Lischka has a passage from her father included in her collection of lyrics, in her cd jacket "Back Porch Light". A quote from her father whose parting words were: "Lovey, don't die with your ...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:55:00 GMT

Big long huge thank you!

I just want to say thank you! Wow, I can't tell you what a buzz I have today after last night's show. First of all, I have to thank my band. Dean Pearson, Corey Hildebrand, Sam Mitchell and Damon Tupp...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:45:00 GMT

CD review from Calvin Daniels!

Well here we go again! I'm beginning to remember what it was like to feel those creatures fluttering inside your stomach when you first hear that someone has heard your songs and then has put the effo...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:18:00 GMT

"Back Porch Light" made TOP 20 of 100!

Thanks to WOT90s Radio for including me in their top 20 artists of 2007! I would strongly recommend checking out their link (which you can find in "my comments" section) to hear what women in music ar...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:44:00 GMT

Poem for Grandpa

Life is a funny thing, you never expect what it will bring. Sometimes love is sent from above, or fame to honor your name, but sometimes its pain, death as it were. We begin to think, why now? Why hi...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:28:00 GMT