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Balancing Act (2010) now available!
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January 30, 2012 - The information for the 24th Annual International
Folk Alliance Conference on the concert schedule
has been updated, and a new performance date in Memphis, TN has been added
to the schedule! Stay tuned for more information!
"Hello everyone! As you can see, I have been in the studio working on my third solo project which is being scheduled for an April or May release. The tracks and my vocals are all done and we are now in the mixing phase. We still have to shoot the cover and get the artwork going. I thought you might enjoy a few photographs from the session. I was fortunate to have my mother visiting from Russia so she could help watch my children while I was in the studio.
Before I know it I will be heading to Memphis for the 24th Annual Folk Alliance Conference at the end of February where I will be an official showcase artist and doing six other showcases for promoters and venue owners which will hopefully bring me to your area in the near future. I'll also have a chance to meet many of the DJs who played "Balancing Act" and thank them in person. In the meantime, we'll be working hard to finish this record and get it ready for release. Love, N"
 Left to Right: Alison Prestwood on bass, Natasha, Tommy Harden on drums, Mike Rojas on piano and keyboards, Bob Britt on electric guitars and Billy Panda on mandocello, mandolin, high guitar, gut string guitar and acoustic guitar. Stay tuned for more news on these exciting developments!
The International Folk Alliance conference is an annual event that draws together
music industry professionals from throughout the world to share ideas, network, and
celebrate traditional music and dance. It is an event of celebration, education,
and entertainment. Held over five days, the Conference includes: Congratulations to Natasha, and we invite those who are able to come attend
this exciting conference! For more information, see
http://www.folkalliance.org/conference/,
July 29, 2011
-
Many thanks to everyone who tuned in to watch Natasha's live
performance on Music City Roots! Craig Havighurst of String Theory Media, an
occasional contributor to NPR, has the following review:
For the complete review of the entire performance, check out the full
07/28/11 blog entry at:
http://www.musiccityroots.com/beguilers/ July 26, 2011
- Just a reminder that tomorrow evening (Wednesday, July 27) at 7:00
PM CST Natasha will be a guest on the Music City Roots show at the Loveless
Barn in Nashville! Her segments starts at around 7:35PM and can be heard on
WRLT Lightning 100FM or streaming online at
http://www.musiccityroots.com/live-stream. Jim
Lauderdale will be the host of this "GIRL POWER" show and Natasha will be
performing with Billy Panda on mandocello and acoustic guitar, Don Kerce on
upright bass and former
Bering
Strait drummer extraordinaire Alexander "Azik" Arzamastsev on cajon!  May 15, 2011
- A couple of quick news items for all of you! First, Remo Ricaldone reviews
"Balancing Act" on the Italian site,
PlanetCountry.
Check out the original
article in Italian at
PlanetCountry or visit the
Reviews page for an
approximate translation... May 10, 2011
- Natasha will be a guest on the Music City Roots program this July
27th! If you're in the area, you can go see the broadcast live at the
Loveless Barn, 8400 Highway 100 in Nashville. If you're listening from a bit
further away, you can hear it broadcast live on Nashville
Lightning 100 FM Radio. If you're listening from even farther away, the audio will be
streaming live from the internet through
LiquidCompass, and the video
will be broadcast live from 7-9PM CST at
http://musiccityroots.com/live-stream April 6, 2011 - There's a new interview with Natasha in Nashville Hype, one of Nashville's most popular music blogs! The article is entitlled "Natasha Borzilova Learning Life is a Balancing Act". You can check out the full article at http://nashvillehype.com/blog/natasha-borzilova-learning-life-is-a-balancing-act/
March 28, 2011 - Natasha's newest newsletter hits the web! "Hello! So...here we are almost at the end of March already and I am so behind on updating you on everything that's going on in my life! I have a good excuse though! :) As many of you know, I had my baby boy on February 16. Miles was five days late and I about lost my mind waiting for him to arrive! The only positive thing I remember from that was the (almost equally) long awaited airing of my interview on Art of the Song which aired on two hundred public radio stations. If you missed it on the radio, you can still listen to it in the archives on their official website archive link. Five songs from Balancing Act were featured in the piece (one of them--Water and Wood--recorded live during the interview) and lots and lots of talking about the creative process behind the album and songwriting in general.
TOURING Speaking of touring...we just added a new show in Manhattan, Kansas on June 4. I've been invited to play their summer concert series in the park. There's gonna be some serious road tripping this summer and I intend to bring my Mom and my tiny son with me to the shows in Kansas in June and Florida in July. I don't know if I'm looking forward to hours in the car with an infant, but you gotta do what you gotta do, right? You can find all the information about the shows on my official website. In April I'll be playing at Moonlight on the Mountain again and this time with singer songwriter Louise Mosrie who had a #1 Folk album called Home in 2010. On April 30 I will be playing a solo show at Woodsongs Coffeehouse in Dalton, GA in a renovated train depot which should be interesting. I've heard some very nice things about this venue.
MUSIC ON BANDBOX! I'm happy to say we are now selling my music direct on my website through Bandbox. You can order physical CDs and we'll ship them to you or you can download the digital album as well as buy downloads of individual songs. Here is the store link on my site and we also have the widget up on my Facebook music page. Below is what the widget looks and of course you can still order them on all the online sites like Amazon.com, CDBaby.com and iTunes. ANOTHER REVIEW It was nice to have Balancing Act reviewed favorably on the Swedish music ezine Luna Kafe by Anna Maria Stjärnel. You can click here to read what she wrote. And that's about it for now. I hope your spring is hurrying up! I can't wait for it to come and stay (it's indecisive here in Nashville)! Stay healthy and happy! Love, N" February 28, 2011 - A new performance date has been added to the Concert Schedule. Those of you in sunny Kansas can look forward to a great show at "Arts in the Park" this June! Arts in the Park is a free, summer, outdoor concert series that is open to the public. It takes place most weekends in the summer at the Larry Norvell Band Shell in the Manhattan City Park Check out the
Concert Schedule for details. February 23,
2011 - Natasha is once again a proud mother of a brand new baby boy named
Miles. He came into this world at 2:30AM on February 16!
Also, check out the recent
reviews of Cheap Escape from Russian Life Magazine and Luna Kafe in the
reviews section!
January 20,
2011 - Natasha has a new newsletter issue out!
I hope your holidays were joyful and
restful with plenty of good things to eat but no consequences to the
waistline!
We enjoyed the very
first white Christmas I have ever had in Nashville and now I'm just a few
weeks away from the arrival of my second child and let me tell you, I am
ready to be over with this final stage. Perpetuating the stereotypes of
nesting, I've been caught in a knitting daze. I thought I would include
pictures of some of the things I made for my family (I decided to make all
the Christmas gifts this year) as I watched close to 200 episodes of The X-Files.  
While I
was busy discovering the truth and giving myself carpal tunnel syndrome, my
publisher/booking agent Kathy Sacra-Anderson began working on putting some
tour dates together. I'm happy to report my touring calendar is filling up a
bit. If you live in or near one of the places I'm gonna visit in the spring
or summer, I hope to see you at the shows!"
January 12,
2011 -
With the new year comes lots of exciting news from Natasha!
December 26, 2010 -
Happy Holidays! Ringing in the
new year is a new review from Ed Morris, a writer from CMT.com. Check it out
in the
Reviews
section!
December 19, 2010 -
BALANCING ACT was Album of the Week on the National Spanish Radio
program "Toma Uno," with DJ Manolo Fernández for the week of November 13,
2010. To hear the original podcast, please click on the link:
http://www.rtve.es/podcast/radio-3/toma-uno/
November 21, 2010 -
More news on Natasha from
top40-charts.com!
November 14, 2010 -
New news on Natasha's next performance! Please join her on Saturday,
April 30, 2011 at 7PM!
Individual tracks: .99
cents each Also, read on for the latest (and very
exciting) news from Natasha... I
hope you're enjoying the cooler weather and the fact that we're in the
home stretch of the most exciting season of the year! Just wanted to
give you a few updates on what I've been doing since the last
newsletter. The
album is doing really well on folk radio, all the feedback I'm getting
from the DJs is VERY positive and some even started playing songs from
"Cheap Escape" all over again after they heard this one. So the last
few weeks I dusted off my Garage Band and I've been busy doing station
identification bits for them (as in, "Hi, I'm Natasha Borzilova and
you're listening to...") I was also very happy to find out that most of
these stations are affiliated with universities or NPR which I listen to
every day. The
October Folk DJ charts came out and we were amazed and excited to find
"Balancing Act" at #9 out of 65 on the Top Album chart and my name at #8
in the Top Artist chart, sharing the list with such incredible artists
as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, John Prine, The Steeldrivers, The Beatles,
& Robert Plant to name a few. In the Top Songs of October chart,
"Ghost" was #9 and "End of September" was #16. The charts are comprised
from actual playlists submitted and in October the data came from 13,215
spins reported by 151 DJs. I'm including the charts in the newsletter
so you can be amazed and excited with me. :) It's been pretty incredible
to see my name on playlists with artists like Shawn Colvin and Suzanne
Vega. I
also wanted to share with you a video clip of me performing "Ghost" the
night of the CD release party at Third & Lindsley. I'm due in early February (please, don't say
it's gonna be on Valentine's Day!) and if my beloved Titans go to the Super
Bowl (as I believe every year even when we're 0-6 hehe) the baby might
arrive sometime in the second half, depending on who's winning.:))) Anyway, I plan to resume touring in April.
We're already working on some shows and radio appearances scheduled for next
spring. And that's all the news I have for now.
Check out the charts! Love, N" To receive the newsletter, we invite you to sign up for Natasha's mailing
list below! November 4,
2010 - Natasha is in very good company placing among artists in the
artist chart including Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Robert Plant, The Beatles,
John Prine, & The Steeldrivers. Folk radio is
known for playing many classic tracks from the genre
along with new releases. Again, thanks for enjoying her music! November 3,
2010 - Great news! October's tallies are in, and "Balancing Act" has
charted in the Folk Radio charts! So, with the artist results for last month in, we're looking forward to seeing the Artist charts as well. We'll have those results posted soon. Thanks again for all of your support.! October 11,
2010 - Happy Columbus Day to all of our American fans!
(Click to enlarge) Natasha's music has been getting attention around the world. Check out the lastest review in Dutch, all the way from Johnny's Garden in the Netherlands!September 27, 2010 - Thanks to all of the dedicated fans who came out to celebrate the release of Natasha's latest album at the CD release party last week!
Proof positive that Natasha's music reaches all corners of the globe: for those of you who may read Dutch, check out this recent review from the Netherlands! http://www.altcountryforum.nl/2010/09/25/natasha-borzilova-balancing-act/ September 21, 2010 - RELEASE DAY!!! Balancing Act (2010) releases today! We invite you to join Natasha in celebrating her second CD's release at the CD release party tomorrow night in Nashville! See "Concert Schedule" for details. Also, thanks to the many pre-orders of "Balancing Act" the CD was #2 in the Hot New Releases in Contemporary Folk on and #94 in the Contemporary Folk rankings on Amazon on September 20, 2010,the day before the official release. Many thanks to you loyal fans for all of your support!
September 17, 2010 - "Balancing Act" ships to radio! Natasha recently stopped by the Hadley Music Group offices to see the new CDs and happened to be there on the day when they were also going out the door to radio stations.
In other news, "Balancing Act" is currently #3 in the Airplay Direct Americana/AAA Chart for the Top 50 albums downloaded by radio for airplay. AirPlay Direct is a digital delivery system developed for artists, radio programmers & music industry professionals. We thank all of you for your support and encouragement!
September 13, 2010 - With Natasha's new album due out on September 21st, we invite you to join us in celebrating the release of BALANCING ACT at Natasha's CD Release Party:September 22, 2010 7:00PM 3rd and Lindsley 818 3rd Ave. S Nashville, TN 37210 (Doors open at 6:00PM) Ticket information: Tickets are $8.00-$12.00, available via TicketWeb June 02, 2010 - Natasha's back in the studio recording a new album! Check out the gallery for pictures! May 11, 2010 - Natasha will be going in the studio the first week of June with Billy Panda who played on Cheap Escape and Byron House( who works for Sam Bush and also just played on the new Robert Plant project)on upright and electric bass. Also, Alexander Arzamastsev (formerly with Bering Strait) has agreed to come in and play some percussion on a more stripped down acoustic project that will be released in August or Sept. 2010. Then the plan is to go back and complete a third CD with full band that she started last year for a 2011 release.
April 25, 2010 - You
can now listen to Natasha's music on free streaming media at
jango.com! In addition to hearing her songs, you can also network
with other fans as well as recommend her music to others. We invite you to
sign up at jango for free account and give it a try! April 18, 2010 - We invite you to sign up for Natasha's new mailing list
to keep informed of news and upcoming performances in your area! (Your
information will never be sold or shared with a third party)
Fans in the Alabama area will also have the opportunity to see Natasha perform live in Birmingham this May! Please visit the concert schedule for details. March 30, 2009 - Natasha Borzilova was back in the studio on Friday, March 20 recording songs for the next CD. Joining Natasha was the same talented ensemble of musicians who played on "Cheap Escape". (Bob Britt /electric guitars, Billy Panda/acoustic guitar, Alison Prestwood/bass, Tommy Harden/drums and Mike Rojas/piano and all keys.) Craig Havighurst of String Theory Media was in the studio filming much of the process for a video piece to be launched a the time of the CD release although the intention is to give some sneak previews of the process over the next few months also. Once again, the CD will be a collection of all original material by Natasha. No release date for the CD has been set yet.
October 20, 2008 -
Natasha is featured in the LISTEN UP! section of the current issue
(November 3) of Country Weekly
magazine
and from October 20 - November 2 you can get a free download of her song "Last
Touch" by
going to the Country Weekly web site. The magazine regularly features up and coming
country, bluegrass and
Americana artists. Check out
http://www.countryweekly.com/freemusic/ October 9, 2008 - GREAT NEWS! Natasha will be on a live concert webcast at Michael Johnathon's Wood Songs Old-Time Radio Hour this Monday! Appearing on Michael Johnathon's WOODSONGS OLD-TIME RADIO HOUR on Monday October 13, 2008 7:00PM EST. Reservations at the Kentucky Theatre in Lexington at 859-252-8888. Watch the live multi-camera web cast FREE at http://www.woodsongs.com/ July 7, 2008 - Natasha's Facebook page is up and almost running... Follow the link and click on "Become a Fan" to show your support! June 16, 2008 - Lots of changes and additions to the website. First off, we've added some embedded YouTube videos to the Multimedia page, as well as some classic fan photos from her Bering Strait days. If you have a picture with Natasha that you'd like to submit to the website, please send it to kathy@natashaborzilova.com. We've also added a few reviews, some new live performance dates, a list of radio stations (on the Music page) that are playing songs from Cheap Escape, and we're experimenting with adding Natasha's blog entries to this news page. We'll see if it takes. Coming soon: Facebook page, giveaway contest, digital presskit video. May 07, 2008 - Check out Natasha's next scheduled acoustic performance on June 14th, at Cafe Coco in Nashville, TN. Also, ordering links through Amazon, iTunes and CDBaby are now on the site! May 05, 2008 - "I'm Angry" showed up on the playlist of The Acoustic Edge, 89.1 The Wood, in St. Louis, MO. It is a 35,000 watt station covering 2.6 million listeners. The show is hosted by Terry Moses and Naomi Soule. May 4, 2008 - "Matches" was on the playlist for DJ John Timewarp's show "Dark Side of the Highway", "Sundays from 4-6 a.m.on WHUS 91.7FM at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. April 21, 2008 - The wait will soon be over! Pre-orders will close today, as Natasha's new solo album "Cheap Escape" goes on sale! April 11, 2008 - Natasha recently did a phone interview with Alan Cackett, editor of the respected Maverick Music Magazine in the U.K. The interview will be used for a feature piece in the publication which will run sometime this summer. As soon as issue details are available, they will be posted so stay tuned. Maverick Magazine is now being sold on many magazine stands in the U.S. March 12, 2008 - With Natasha's new website under development, Hadley Music Group is proud to announce that the new album "Cheap Escape" will be shipping to AAA and Americana radio formats this Spring!
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This
past week we spent a whole day shooting videos to coincide with the launch
of the record. Craig Havighurst is the director and it was a very pleasant
experience working with him on everything. Here is a sneak peak with some
photos from the day in front of the cameras. There will be an EPK
(electronic press kit) about the album as well as a video for the title
track and a live performance of Billy Panda and I doing a song. I am looking
forward to seeing the edited pieces and sharing them with you. 
In the meantime, if you missed Natasha on "Art of the Song" with
hosts John Dillon and Vivian Nesbitt earlier this month, you can now listen
to the entire show in the website's archives at
November 11,
2010 -
Happy Veteran's Day, everyone! We're proud to be able to launch
Natasha's 
