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"You are a very talented songwriter...  My roommate cracked up when I mentioned some of the lyrics.  You have a wonderful energy about you and of course it only adds to your performance.  It's very rare to see a performer who not only entertains but also makes the audience feel very welcomed and comfortable. Your listeners come from all walks of life, very eclectic crowd ... I love that!" - Wende Allyn, Thousand Oaks, CA

Nicola Gordon wants to have a few words with you.  You've probably had them too.  Feeling off kilter, feeling strangely fine, you know, life.  With a fluid voice and an acoustic guitar, the vision of a poet and the fool's journey, Nicola's got the courage to open a few dingy doors, tiptoe through a few tulips; what ever it takes to get to here.

Nicola is constantly exploring the creative process.  She has two CDs: TURNING, released in 1998, and CHAOS INFINATUM, just out in March 2000.  Over the past four years she has been teaching on-going songwriting classes through Adult Ed and all-day songwriting workshops called SONGWEAVING.  Nicola organizes monthly songwriter circles for established songwriters and showcases for emerging artists in her classes.  She created the Millennium Songfest and other musical events around town.  The Independent, Santa Barbara's local weekly, has recently crowned her 'the hardest working songwriter in Santa Barbara'.

Nicola plays both solo, with a full band and everything in between all around Southern and Central California.  She thrives on the intimacy of home concerts and enjoys the thrill of large concert halls.  Gordon has opened for many headliners of the acoustic music scene, including Patty Larkin, Cheryl Wheeler, Jonatha Brooke, and Venice.

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Ms Gordon took a solo journey hitchhiking across the country in search of the Holy Grail.  She found her own version while playing guitar and singing to a bag of whole-wheat flour (while working in a health food store a few lifetimes ago) and hasn't stopped since.  Single mom of a teenager, gardener, avid reader and rockhopper, Nicola Gordon has it pretty darn good.

In her spare time, this Santa Barbarian might be found doodling, dancing with babies, or walking Lola the dog extraordinaire.

"I really enjoyed your concert, even though I'm in a bit of an off place, going through some changes as the boys from CSNY used to call it.  But the more I hear of your music, the more I hear connections with those heart things I deal with, that we all deal with ... love keeps coming back... 'haven't talked to you in a long time ... I'll always love you'.  All the good strong happy sad real stuff. It's good to share that with you, or rather I guess because of you, because it's from you... Jim Lawrence, Santa Barbara