Nadia Reid

Following up the frenetic Jenny Don't and the Spurs run of Small Hall Sessions, the pace and volume has eased considerably this time around, with the current guest being Nadia Reid and band.

Celebrating her third album, Out of My Province, released a year ago (pre-you-know-what, as Nadia puts it) Nadia Reid and her band are in the middle of a nationwide opera house and theatre tour and boy they do not disappoint.

Touring to close the loop on previous recordings before committing to her next one, tonight Nadia Reid and her band kicked things off at Hastings' grand old lady of ToiToi, weaving magic soundscapes accompanied by intelligent and literate lyrical outpourings.

Not a sound from the packed Tuning Fork in Auckland tonight. As we watch Nadia Reid and Hollie Fullbrook perform their literary, emotionally complex and musically lavish evolved Folk music. As their country-wide tour reaches the City of Sails and Viruses. Can testify to this personally.

Wearing generous, owlish glasses, the New Zealander’s black-and-white gaze goes over to the left on 2015’s precocious Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs.

Postponed first by failing health, and then a cyclone, Nadia finally got the chance to finish what she started back on April 8th.

For those fans waiting to hear Nadia Reid perform tunes from her new album with a full band, well, they’ll have to wait a little longer. After playing only three songs, Nadia was forced to halt her show due to ill health. It all started well. The Broken Heartbreakers turned in a very well-received set as Au