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Two accomplished young singer-songwriters, a rising star of tomorrow and an established performer - are here today in a showcase performance at Jamey's "I wrote this album over the course of three years when I was going through high school,” says Ciara Grace, “which I feel is a very tumultuous time in anyone’s life. Experiencing your first taste of adulthood, your first relationships, trying to discover who you are as a person – it’s all very overwhelming, exciting and terrifying at the same time. Through all these experiences, I was really just writing down how I felt as a way to cope and to process things, hence the title track, ‘Write it down.’ I have no plans to stop writing songs and making music, I’m just hoping people will relate to the experiences I’ve written about.”Ciara Grace has been surrounded by music since day one. Growing up just outside of Philadelphia, she spent much of her childhood with her dad, Glenn Barratt, at his MorningStar Studios in East Norriton, PA, or backstage at top East Coast clubs, listening rooms, and international stages with her mom, acclaimed singer-songwriter Lizanne Knott.
And as you will hear, she learned her lessons well.“I was always running around, making friends with the musicians, pressing buttons I shouldn’t have been touching,” Grace says. “On another note, I was very fortunate growing up that I got to sit in on my mom making her albums. I feel like I got the artist’s perspective from her, and the engineer’s perspective from my dad. By the time I got around to starting my debut, I was very familiar with the process and all the time and labor that goes into it.”
With inspiration everywhere, Grace began penning her own songs, fuelled by her passion for eclectic and expressive artists like Lorde, Fiona Apple, and Lucy Dacus but rich with her own particular life experience and growing gift for seasoned songcraft. Little by little, she developed her evolving catalogue both in the studio as well as on global stages spanning the Philadelphia Folk Festival and New York City’s legendary Bitter End to the Liverpool Philharmonic's Music Room and Bilbao Spain’s Sala BBK. Co-produced at MorningStar with Barratt, songs like the buoyant “Summer Interlude” and the edgy “Stalker” are finely hewn and deeply personal, Grace’s intimate, emotionally charged lyricism spun with empathy, tight-knit arrangements, and understated invention.
Gina Kaz has toured in London, CA, NYC, Philly, Pittsburgh, etc. She made 2 indie albums, and landed tunes on two high profile ABC shows.
On her way to a gig one day, she had an almost fatal car accident. As she healed from her life threatening head injury, broken bones, and trauma, she continued to write music and made “For You” in Nashville, TN.
Gina eventually became a mom (another dream of hers) and started a local children’s music class in Philadelphia. She started using her songwriting gifts to write her own kids’ songs, and eventually ended up making three albums (they won awards and stuff), two singable books, and built an incredible widespread community of families that she loves getting to love.
At the same time, Kaz was also working with the dying, as a Music Therapist, doing one-on-one visits, as well as leading group sessions. All of this was exactly as it should be. Then…alone at the piano, one afternoon, while all the kids and hubby were out of the house, “Gina Kaz” woke back up and out came new songs and a new vibrant expression of her life to embody. So, she made her “Walk Through” album and made a beautiful thing with beautiful people. She continues to write new music has just released, “Pretty,” produced by Patch Boswell, London, UK.
It’s all a part of being Gina, her kids, the “music with gina” community, the dying, writing, creating music…….and GINA KAZ was always here.
https://ciaragracemusic.com/
https://www.ginakaz.com/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Jamey's House of Music, 32 S. Lansdowne Ave.,Lansdowne,PA,United States
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