Nina Violet

Nina Violet Bio Nina Violet hails from the island of Martha’s Vineyard where she was classically trained from childhood on viola. Nina started touring with island favorites Kahoots while still in her teens. Her early twenties saw Nina collaborating, touring and recording with Willy Mason, whose hit song “Oxygen” both launched his career and enabled Nina and himself to crisscross the Atlantic and US on numerous headline tours and with Radiohead, Beth Orton and Elvis Perkins. Nina performs on and arranges for the viola and entire family of strings, and plays guitar, banjo, mandolin and keyboards. Her voice, melody and lyric writing have taken center stage on her albums and live shows. She appears solo and with her sister Marciana Jones. Nina’s music organically blends poetic lyrics, lush orchestration and even some punk sensibility into something truly timeless & original. Press “A modern, funky Edith Piaf” -Boston Globe "Violet sings and writes songs like a grownup. I mean that in the best sense- when you are wise enough to have no use for affectation of any sort, you just deliver a bullshit-free, direct line to the listener" -Eszther Balint, ArtForum best of 2010 “A quick listen to some of the studio tracks reveals moments of startling voice control in the emerging Violet…Forget Elliott Smith or Devendra Banhart – this was indie folk with attitude.” -Dan Ashby - The Yorker, York, Great Britain “Listen, if you can get past the sheer beauty of her voice, to Nina's lyrics. How she settles on words so pitch-perfect yet unexpected is one of the unsettling mysteries that is destined to bring Nina to the world's attention any day now.” -Daniel Waters - Martha’s Vineyard Times "The highlight of the evening arrives when Nina briefly takes centre stage. The one song she has time to perform is unexpected, and completely gorgeous. Nina Violet causes a united hushed silence providing three precious minutes of folk perfection. " -Joshua Cole - Drowned in Sound “the kind of soaring, otherworldly harmonies Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear get all the accolades for....as layered and lush as anything produced by Brian Wilson" -Crispin Kott - Roll Magazine “We haven't quite worked out who Nina reminds us vocally. Like all class acts she reminds you of several people at one and the same time but the whole thing is so seamless that you have your work cut out to identify them and she just ends up sounding like herself....Buf if we say there are similarities to AIMEE MANN, ALISON KRAUSS, ROSANNE CASH, GILLIAN WELCH and LUCINDA WILLIAMS...well you get the picture: she is right up there.” -The Band Room, UK "www.myspace.com/ninaviolet" "www.reverbnation.com/#/ninaviolet"