Singer/Songwriter Stacia Petrie has been performing solo and in bands steadily since 1993. Multiple nominee and award winner at the Detroit Music Awards (2000-2007) in both the Acoustic and Blues categories, she has also been a New Folk Finalist at the 1998 Kerrville Folk Festival and winner for numerous other songwriting contests, including 2nd place for Jazz/Blues in the 2005 Pacific Songwriting Competition, a New Zealand-based competition that drew entries from around the globe. "Face the Blues" a composition cowritten with Detroit great Motor City Josh, recently took first place in the 2007 Unisong International Song Competition.
In addition to her own projects, Stacia also is an original and current member of the MotorCity Women, a Detroit-area supergroup of seven female lead vocalists and an all-star, four-piece band called Detroit Express.
"Stacia has a strikingly fine voice and uses it to plead for positive change." ~ Patrick Chimner of Common Time Music Magazine says
"Stacia's voice quality is astounding in both its clarity and sweetness of tone and her tunes, as she performs them, convey a rare sense of honesty." ~ Barbara Scott of the Blues Review
Stacia Petrie's Recordings Include:
Sessions from the Mission (1995)
A Milestone a Minute (1998)
Torch Song Flame (2003)
~ Ruby Blues (2007)
