After 4 years of due diligence as an itinerant musician traveling year-round for music, Nina Ricci has honed her craft the hard way. Her varied experience as a street performer, in small venues, theaters, and festivals have made her a formidable presence onstage, and her travels have given rise to new dimensionality in her songs.

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Nina, a graduate of Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) has the proclivity to always bring forth the unexpected. Her songs are never homogenous, but rather, they are the works of a mind that is constantly sifting, building, and living in an apartment right overtop of reality, but not quite in it. Thus, her lyricism is inventive, with intentional mechanisms that set up the ear to hear happenings within her songs. The rhythm of syllables and the rhyming of lines crackle with creativity, yet, she’s aware that listeners cannot live on poetry alone. So, balanced among her more unusual works of art are songs that touch the heart. Her narratives are often escapist, in that she has the ability to ferry you away with storytelling that makes you feel like you’ve been somewhere. Immersive is the word.

 

Currently, Nina has taken leave of her travels and has taken up residence in the foothills of Signal Mountain, with the swinging city of Chattanooga, TN rippling just below her toes. She performs locally, but her attention is primarily given to writing new music for upcoming albums. After 4 years of “hard traveling,” you may imagine that Nina has much to write and sing about. Expect a new album called Hard Travelin' Girl to be released in 2025.

 

Since her debut all-original album, Designs On Me, was released in 2018, Nina has also released several singles and a tribute album, Fare Thee Well: A Joan Baez Tribute (2020.) Being invested in the business of touring was an all-consuming effort, and few songs were composed during the interim, though many ideas percolated and were jotted down. As a result of her erstwhile experiences and having time now available to her, Nina is “in-flow” and has her hands in the “paint,” creating a multitude of new songs that she expects will make up the compendiums of 3 new albums.