Nick Jaina

This winter I worked on the music for a play by my friend Meghann McCracken. The play, Girls Who Drew Horses, debuted at the Allways Theater in New Orleans in January 2010. I went back to Portland afterwards and recorded the music with my friend Kaylee Cole. The resulting soundtrack is available on Bandcamp for pay-what-you-will download.

“A woman lost in travel finds herself confronted by ghosts of her youth through dialogue with an abandoned Japanese doll. Shifting in time, place and perspective, Girls Who Drew Horses is a meditation on establishing identity and discovering freedom within its metaphysical boundaries.”

I’ll be touring the middle of this country with a drummer and bassist, first playing songs at the True/ False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, and then going to SXSW in Austin.

I’ll also be playing some other shows in between. Check the shows page to see the dates. More will be added soon.

When I get back to the Northwest, I’ll be singing in Anais Mitchell’s folk opera Hadestown. I’ll be singing the part of Orpheus, and Corin Tucker from Sleater-Kinney will be singing the part of Persephone.

Hello. I’ll be officially releasing my new album in Portland Wednesday August 24th, and following that with a tour of Western and Mountain States for two weeks in September.

The Portland show will be at Mississippi Studios and will feature the vocals of Kaylee Cole, Laura Gibson, Tahoe Jackson and others. Also on the bill are three of my favorite bands: Dovekins from Denver, Spirits of the Red City from Minneapolis, and Run On Sentence from Portland. The tour will feature Kaylee Cole and me trading vocals with a four-piece band accompanying.

You can see all the dates on the right of this page.