songwriter liz nance: August 2014

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

new stories, new songs

Aj and I haven't played a show as a duo in quite some time. A lot of this has to do with other bands and work. I have been playing and singing with a new band, Dogwood Winter. Aj has been busy as the sound engineer at Nantahala Brewing Company. However, we have been writing and rehearsing. Join us this Saturday, August 9th at the GSMRR Depot in Bryson City as we start playing shows together again! We will be sharing some new songs and some new stories. Show is free and starts at 6:30pm. Thursday, August 14th we will be at the Marianna Black Public Library in Bryson. Show is free and starts at 7pm. We always enjoy playing at the library where we have the opportunity to talk to the audience and tell the stories behind our music.

Life is good. We are grateful for our talents and gifts. We are also appreciative to everyone in our community who has supported us as artists. Lots of love!!

Liz

bio

Liz is from a time and place in Georgia where women did what they were told and held back tears to hold families together. It didn't take her long to realize that just wasn't her. She started playing bass in a country band at the age of 13 and soon traded it for an Alvarez acoustic guitar given to her by her grandfather. Leaving behind the idea that you can't talk about the skeletons in the closet, she started writing to expose them in the form of song.

Aj grew up in Lexington, NC where he started working at the family sawmill at the age of 10. In 2005, Aj moved to Western North Carolina where he found himself in a mecca for folk and old time music.

Liz and Aj got married in 2009. Liz did not know what her music was missing until Aj started putting tasteful leads and runs to her songs. It wasn't long before they were writing together. In 2011, Liz and Aj started performing shows together, traveling all over North Carolina sharing their lives in the form of song.