art, art… I want you

I got the most delightful link to this song & video from the always inspiring Jo Dee Foster of Cutting Up.  Thank you girlfriend…. so-so lovely!

A little bit about Tanya Davis, “This spoken word poet/performer masterly cajoles
language into brief, simple songs embodying universal themes such as
love, loneliness, loss, infatuation and art. She’s catalogued her deep
pockets of syllables, synonyms, verbs, adjectives and nouns into a
debut disc dubbed Make A List.

“I’ve been writing since I was very little, it was the first thing I
ever wanted to do when I grew up,” says Davis, over morning coffee in
Halifax. “Growing up on P.E.I., there wasn’t a hell of a lot to do, as
I’m sure like it is growing up in many small towns.

“I think it influenced me to write a lot. There wasn’t really another option.”

Nova Scotia recently adopted the burgeoning wordsmith, as the local weekly The Coast
pegged her as “one of Halifax’s most mesmerizing performers.” In her
late twenties, Davis seems to be spilling the ink from her pen anywhere
and everywhere. Since her humble beginnings softly sputtering words
from scraps of loose leaf at quiet cafes in Vancouver and
Charlottetown, she decided to hang her literary hat in Halifax.

“I try and write every day,” says Davis. “I just moved into a new house and I can feel I’m not writing as much.

“I didn’t know anybody at first, so I just wrote. I moved here
because I wanted to make music. I wrote every day. That was my work.”

Davis draws inspiration from personal experience and the surrounding world.”

–by Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack)

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