Nora Quinn NY Based Music Artist And Storytelling |Season 15, Episode 5|

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Nora remembers sitting at the desktop computer in the closet, typing out stories about fairies and girls like me in carefully chosen fonts on Microsoft Word. Nora started writing regularly as soon as she learned to read. Storytelling has always been part of my ethos.

Nora's dad put her in piano lessons at seven. She grew up listening to him play guitar in the living room, mostly The Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan. Music was never a serious career pursuit of her's until she met her current partner. He’s been pursuing music for the last few years in addition to other creative forays. She never really considered it a possibility: Nora was supposed to be a lawyer or a doctor or an analyst of some sort. She met him at an open mic playing original songs. He pushed her to start going after gigs again after a years of writing in my room. She started playing out: open mics, bar gigs, opening for bigger artists, headlining on weeknights at tiny clubs. She went ever so slightly viral on Instagram for a clip of a song she wrote during my senior year of college. Now, doing anything else without music as the dream feels unimaginable. He flipped a switch in her brain: She can do this.

Nora has been playing regularly in my Upstate NY hometown, recording on the side, and she’ll be officially moving to Brooklyn in November. She will chat about her next steps including recording more music and finding my community in the city.