NextThreeDays: Event Display

Musician Natalie Stovall
Venue: Heth Lawn (Radford University), Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM - TBD
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
Description:
R-Space presents musician Natalie Stovall and her band on the Heth Lawn for an evening of free music.

It’s no secret that the music industry has fallen on hard times. However, while other independent artists have been sitting around lamenting the current state of things, Natalie Stovall has been working.

Natalie was born and raised just outside of Nashville, TN. Since her first professional gig singing and playing the fiddle at the age of 10, Natalie has already seen things that most artists could only dream of. She’s performed everywhere from Oprah to the Grand Ole Opry. She was the first performer ever to be invited to sing God Bless America for the President at the White House Press Correspondents Dinner. And surprisingly, she has done all of this with no record deal of any kind.

The release of her first record “Late Night Conversations” saw a top 50 radio hit with her song “If I Run To You Now” and the placement of that song in the National Lampoon movie “Bag Boy”. In the past couple years Natalie has used that momentum to become one of the hottest booked independent acts in America. Performing and fiddling over 200 dates a year at college campuses, military bases, fairs, festivals, clubs, and bars is all just par for the course with Natalie.

“People ask me a lot why I spend so much time touring.. I know it’s not the path that most country artists take, but I know it’s the right thing for me. The only way I really know I’m heading in the right direction with my music is to get out there and see how people react to it… See if I can really grab them.”

Whatever Natalie is doing seems to be working. Recently she swept awards at the APCA national conference and with Campus Activities Magazine winning “Best Band”, “Best Entertainer”, “Best Female Performer”, and “Best Music”.

As Natalie’s reputation spreads great opportunities keep rolling in. Natalie has already been selected to open for acts like Gretchen Wilson, Little Big Town, Gloriana, Justin Moore, Josh Gracin, Trent Tomlinson, Safetysuit, The Doobie Brothers, and that’s just the beginning.

When Natalie is on stage she is a different person. The moment she picks up one of her alternating black and white fiddles, the spell is complete and you finally get to see her in the space where she truly lives – where she’s meant to be; A dancing Siren with her chin tucked, and her bow fiercely flailing. She spins and sways through a dizzying, hour-long crescendo until the final band hit.

After her show when the smoke settles, the lights go down, and the audience finally gets to catch their collective breath, Natalie performs the most unexpected part of the show. She transforms back into the smiling, unassuming, five-foot belle that you almost forgot existed just before the first downbeat.

For more information, visit: http://www.nataliestovall.com/

For more information, visit: https://php.radford.edu/~rspace/ or 540-831-5463.