Nan Macmillan appeared on our radar after she entered the first annual Lyrical Singer Songwriter Contest. She went on to win the contest after impressing the judges with her powerful voice, melodic hooks and soulful lyrics.

Nan was raised in the suburbs of Boston, Mass. but has spent time in California, Spain and now Charlottesville, VA where she is attempting to carve out a name for herself as an artist. She employs intricate finger-picking styles in different guitar tunings to create a folk sound that is unique and yet familiar at the same time. There is power lurking behind her soft voice and she lets it out in a few of the songs on this episode - notably "Rain for the Heavy Heart" and "How Many Miles."

She tackles tragedy in her lyrics - utilizing metaphor to great effect in "Sapling for August" which she wrote after the attacks in Charlottesville in 2017. And she writes about her time spent in Spain in "Rainy for the Heavy Heart" and the experience she had on a hiking pilgrimage.

Nan is an extremely talented songwriter and musician, and you should keep an eye out for her debut EP which should be out sometime in the Summer or Fall of 2019.