After college she taught elementary music in a small Minnesotan town for a few years; discontentment led her to leave her teaching career and move to Minneapolis to explore her passion. From that point on, Harms immersed herself in the local jazz scenes throughout the state of Minnesota.
In November of 2009, she released her first album, In the Indigo, which received high critical acclaim. Previous to In the Indigo, she had recorded an EP in 2007 and has sung backup on other CD and jingle projects and has enjoyed radio airplay on such outlets as KBEM-FM Jazz 88,, The Penthouse in New York, WCCO-AM, Minnesota Public Radio Network, and many smaller stations around the state of Minnesota. Nancy can currently be found on many club and concert stages around the state of Minnesota and in Chicago and is looking forward to expanding her performance venues across the country.
"...a quiet confidence, an innate sense of swing and languorously seductive phrasing. On this debut, she does standards, a John Mayer tune and a couple of originals. Quite impressive." – Jon Bream, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
"Few debut recordings have as much depth and personal revelation as In the Indigo. Nancy Harms can swing with the best of them but her heart, her voice, her soul go far beyond the Great American songbook in both interpretation of standards and mining new material. One of the year’s best local recordings." - Andrea Canter, Jazz Police
"...sexiness lies in the implacable thickness of her voice, in the sense that she's withholding something just from you, and the way she intimately closes off words in a drawl that turns "me" slightly into 'may.' This is also the soulful cool of someone sitting beside an emotion and observing it rather than expressing it..." - Peter S. Scholtes, City Pages
"Sultry, moody, anything but fragile, Ms. Harms creates a presence that is substantial – in control, and in my mind, it’s what separates her..." - Doug Boynton, girlsingers.org
"(In the Indigo) is as fine a piece of production and as wonderful a piece of singing as I've heard in years and years and years." - Don Shelby, WCCO 830 AM
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Saturday, January 8 at 8:30 pm
with MICHAEL FERRERI at the piano
Nancy Harms with Rick Carlson (piano), Steve Pikal (bass) and Jendeen Forberg (drums) at Hell's Kitchen
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