Nicola Clark

Nicola is a singer/songwriter now based in Cornwall after a varied and peripatetic career: archaeological draughtsperson; portrait painter; working in an Indian Ayurvedic ashram – all of which influences the subject matter and quality or her songs. 

About 10 years ago she began to focus on writing and performing her own material, accompanying herself on guitar.

As well as her debt to the humour, drama and fabulous melodies of traditional folk music, she acknowledges the influence of music hall, country and western and the singer/songwriter poets of the 60s and 70s, Dylan, Cohen, Mitchell, Paul Simon. 

Since coming to St Ives in 2002 Nicola has worked with a comedy theatre group, Kulture Brake, performing regularly throughout the summer for four years. She has also performed her own shows – Nicola Sings and A Stargazy Night. She has sung at weddings and book launches, been featured on the radio in Cambridge and Cornwall, entertained locally at pubs and village halls from Sennen to Truro and has just started to go further afield – singing at festivals in the South- West last year. 

She has produced 3 CDs, the latest is a collection of love songs-
The Dagger & The Dove  

 “She occupies that area somewhere between Purcell, Edit Piaf and Arthur Askey" Mike O’Connor at Herga Folk 2007 

. . . the conversation round the bar was rising until guitarist Nicola began to sing - her high distinctive  voice and quirky self-penned lyrics, full of humour and observations reminiscent of the late Jake Thackray,  warmed the hearts of so many and even the noisiest areas of the room fell silent...  CTJ, St Ives Times & Echo  2005 
 

Visit the musical Nicola at www.myspace.com/nicolasings and the artist at www.nicolaclark.co.uk

Visit Jim's website or his myspace site to hear some of his music - highly recommended