Martha Reich and I catch up

Love talking to Martha Reich.Martha is an award-winning Santa Fe-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Martha Reich has performed around the world and shared stages with Melissa Crabtree, Consuelo Luz, the Reverend Horten Heat and others as well as opening for Kate MacLeod and performing at the Sundance Film Festival. Originally from New England, she received a BFA in illustration, but music called and she relocated to Santa Fe in 1999 where she has since released five CDs including the award-winning album entitled BRAVE BIRD.

Her 2018 release BRAVE BIRD, was described as “stunning and heartbreaking” by Americana Highways and earned her a Gold Medal for Female Vocalist in the 2018 Global Music Awards, as well as the LA Critics Award for Best Folk Artist. Often compared to Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez, Reich is deeply inspired by nature and her unique style features an honesty and vulnerability that evokes “a sound almost woven out of the earth.”

Reich won the 2019 New Mexico Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Song with 'Fade Away'. In 2018 she received a Clouzine International Music Award for Best Indie Album 'BRAVE BIRD’ previously winning Global Music Awards in 2017 and 2016, The Southwest Independent Music Award in 2015, and the 2014 New Mexico Music Award for Best Folk Song ‘I’d Rather be Surprised’

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