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About Me

Keyboard-based singer-songwriter Nancy Rost made her performance debut in May 2005. Since then she's been inflicting her multi-genre music on a wide variety of unsuspecting Midwestern audiences.
With twisted roots as a toy-piano-playing member of the Boulder street outfit The Blimping Blues Band and a backup singer with barn-punks Curtains, she brings a fresh sound to such conventional song topics as ice-fishing chic, the plight of airplanes painted to look like killer whales, and the secret lives of condiments.
Her rural-prison-construction song "Welcome to Boscobel" is included on the December 2005 Madison songwriter compilation CD Made at Home, Volume 2. "Welcome to Boscobel" has also been covered by country-folk musician Stephen Lee Rich and was recorded for his forthcoming live CD.
She is a finalist in the jazz and pop/rock categories of the 2007 Midwest Song Contest, a winner of the Madison Song Showdown performing songwriter contest, a reviewers' pick in blues and folk at Garageband.com, and two-time finisher of February Album Writing Month, a challenge to write 14 songs in 28 days.

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Member Since: 5/16/2005
Band Website: nancyrost.com
Band Members: "Quirky silly little song and funny story. Such a strange story, seems like it must have been a true story. Whatever the case, the best part of the song is the quirky little female ranting/singing to this goofy piano. I haven't heard anything quite like that ever...the closest thing is the recent Regina Spektor." - Chris Sitton, Tyler, Texas
"Smart lyric, smart melody, smart chords, smart arrangement. This is a special jazzy little number with a good sense of balance and a focus like a lazy susan, turning, always turning what's toward you and what's coming. The singer --and I mean this in the most complimentary way-- has an ordinary voice made keen. Her pipes are not your envy, but her skill and dexterity --that way she wields a note-- demands your respect. Like Billie in that. This song is excellent. A beautiful, stirring poem of despair amidst the everyday routines of a city rife with handily-borrowed imagery. S-M-A-R-T. Five letters, five stars." - Cody Weathers, Portland, Oregon
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Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Likely Stories, chicken film, suburban tour

As many of you know, lately I've been involved in a fun musical project called Likely Stories. It's a collaborative trio with Tracy Jane Comer and Dave Schindele, singer-songwriters who, like me, lik...
Posted by Nancy Rost on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:34:00 PST

Yuku.com, MAMAs voting, shows

My song "I Fell Into a Giant Brain" is being featured on an Australian website:yukuYou can read some of the song's back-story there, and leave comments if you'd like.I had no hand in making the Februa...
Posted by Nancy Rost on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:22:00 PST

Other pages, other songs

I haven't blogged in awhile. (Do I always start my blogs this way?) I suppose I should mention, for those I haven't babbled to already, that I wrote 20 songs in February, collaborated with a bunch o...
Posted by Nancy Rost on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:57:00 PST

more recordings

I've done a few more demo recordings for February Album Writing Month. One of them, "Another Song" is up here on the MySpace page. I've also recorded "Lullaby" - a duet with Dave Schindele - and "Th...
Posted by Nancy Rost on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:13:00 PST

Songs up on fawm.org

I've started the February Album Writing Month challenge, and recordings of my first two songs are up on the site. The first, written February 1, was in response to FAWM's Week 1 challenge to write a ...
Posted by Nancy Rost on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:12:00 PST

Before February starts ...

I've been meaning to do a sort of year-in-review blog. Better do it now, before February begins and I become consumed with FAWM. And I'm feeling slightly maudlin this morning anyway.Some favorite mo...
Posted by Nancy Rost on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:07:00 PST

En haut les mains!

That's French for "stick 'em up" - I know this because I used to hear it on the dubbed version of the old TV show "The Wild Wild West". It takes longer to say, so the gunman's mouth stopped moving be...
Posted by Nancy Rost on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:50:00 PST

I found the perfect dress

Now all I need is a place to wear it. I'm thinking the Madison Area Music Awards would be a good place. So I submitted Welcome to Boscobel in the Folk/Americana category. Now I need to campaign. I...
Posted by Nancy Rost on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:26:00 PST

Fleeting glory

This isn't going to last long, so I may as well let my ego bask in it for a few more days: Love with an Asterisk is at the top of the keyboard charts for all genres on garageband.com this week.&...
Posted by Nancy Rost on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:16:00 PST

The Pie Video

As promised, there was pie on Saturday -- but I didn't get any. Here's the video of Stephen Lee Rich and Ingrid Frances Stark onstage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMED4xg8owE More show detail...
Posted by Nancy Rost on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:17:00 PST