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		<title>Soundtrack to the play Girls Who Drew Horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My SXSW Schedule looks like this&#8230;</title>
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		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2012/03/11/344/</link>
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		<title>March tour to SXSW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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&#8217;ll also be playing some other shows in between. Check the shows page to see the dates. More will be added soon. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2012/02/22/march-tour-to-sxsw/</link>
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		<title>An interview about the new album</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Singer at Willamette Week in Portland did a great job weaving together the story of all the songs on my new album. Check out the extended web interview here.]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/08/30/an-interview-about-the-new-album/</link>
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		<title>Portland Cd Release Show and Western Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello. I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/08/22/portland-cd-release-show-and-western-tour/</link>
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		<title>New Album Out Today, Digitally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My new album &#8220;The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone&#8221; is officially out in the digital world today. You can listen and download over at Bandcamp, or at iTunes. A physical release (ew, gross) and proper tour will be coming in a couple months. So many wonderful singers lent their talents to this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/06/21/new-album-out-today-digitally/</link>
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		<title>The racial composition of Portland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent column is about hipsters in Portland, and how the racial composition of a city matters in terms of the type of conversation the residents have about race. It&#8217;s a lot less dry than that description makes it sound, honest. It&#8217;s also about the rapture that didn&#8217;t happen on May 21st. If it HAD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/06/01/the-racial-composition-of-portland/</link>
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		<title>A Portland preview of the ballet music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a ballet and choral music project with some people in New York over the last year. I&#8217;m pleased to say that it&#8217;s now complete and I&#8217;ll be able to preview it with our little ensemble in Portland on June 30th. Amanda Lawrence and Nathan Langston will be joining me onstage at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/05/29/a-portland-preview-of-the-ballet-music/</link>
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		<title>Cover Artist Brooke Weeber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Brooke Weeber designed the cover for my new album The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone. We talked over different ideas of creating artwork that had more depth than an illustration, and we came up with the idea of building a diorama. All I told her was that I wanted some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/05/25/cover-artist-brooke-weeber/</link>
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		<title>A Spontaneously Magical Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple years ago I attended a dinner hosted by Michael Hebb. He likes to put artists and gastronomes in the same room with wonderful food and try to spark conversation. He told me that I should get up after the meal and play with the incredible singer Tahoe Jackson. It was a great idea, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickjaina.com/2011/05/24/a-spontaneously-magical-performance/</link>
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