Nakia’s Notes: Tomorrow Night At Jovita’s

The newest and last email blast is up on the site and was sent out today to promote the show tomorrow at Jovita’s! We go on at 10PM! Click here now to read the whole thang!!

Remember This Christmas Slideshow! Merry Christmas!

Just a little slideshow featuring some of my family photos and things that are fun holiday memories for me! I hope you enjoy it! Don’t forget that you can download the song, Remember This Christmas, at http://nakia.net/christmas Ho! Ho! Ho! Nakia

News 8 Rooftop Performance of Remember This Christmas

I was asked to perform for this year’s holiday portion of the News 8 Austin Rooftop Series by Andy Langer. Of course I was honored. Mac and Derek and I went down to film it a few weeks ago. It started running on News 8 today if you have Time Warner. If you don’t or [...]

Lincoln Continental Streaming On Facebook

Last night’s show at Jovita’s was far better than I could have hoped for. Thanks to everyone who came out! If you were there, you know we tore the roof off that sucker and in the process I promised to add a new unreleased-never-before-available-song to the web for you folks to listen to. I have [...]

Nakia’s Notes: Saturday Night, Go South!

If you made it out to my birthday this year you remember that we partied down at the legendary South Austin venue, Jovita’s. This Saturday night, Nakia & His Southern Cousins Go South again! Join us and our very special guests, Austin Homegrown (8PM) as we tear into stage at Jovita’s this Saturday night! Get [...]

Nakia Live On KUT’s Eklektikos With John Aielli This Wednesday

This Wednesday the band will be appearing on Eklektikos with John Aielli on 90.5 FM KUT or KUT.org for all you Internet wiz kids! John’s reputation as one of the best hosts in radio is known the world over and I couldn’t be more thrilled about going back on the show. This appearance we will [...]

Sharon Jones Invites Nakia On Stage To Sing Duet

Photo By Danielle Thomas Last night, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings performed at La Zona Rosa here in Austin. The Red State Blues show benefitted the Travis Country Democrats and one of my favorite organizations, SIMS. Photo By Danielle Thomas You may recall my encounter with Sharon during ACL that was the highlight of [...]

Nakia Performs Water To Wine On Fox 7′s Good Day Austin

This morning I woke up WAY earlier than normal to load up in the piano and make an appearance on Fox 7′s Good Day Austin to help promote the South Padre International Music Festival next weekend. Earlier that morning Tim Hayden, the festival’s producer, had been on talking about the festival and I was asked [...]

Nakia Is G Style Magazine September/October Cover Boy!

I was looking through my posts and suddenly realized that in all the ACL prep and craziness I totally missed the opportunity to post about this amazing honor. But here I am – making up for it. I hope! In Austin, we are really fortunate to have this great new magazine called L Style/G Style. [...]

Nakia’s Notes: Save Austin Music, Nakia Plays Houston THIS Saturday Night!

Hi there! First – Thanks for reading and supporting the band and me… In addition to our residency on Thursdays at Momo’s on W. 6th St. I have a few upcoming shows to tell you about so you can come out, bring your friends, and have a good time! Also at the bottom I’ve got [...]

Video Interviews With Roxwel.com & Paste Magazine

During ACL I had time to do several interviews. Two of my favorites were Roxwel.com and Paste Magazine. Take a look… Nakia and His Southern Cousins – ACL Music Festival CoverageVideo Codes at www.roxwel.com I had the Fresh Up Girls with me for the Roxwel interview and they looked lovely, didn’t they? Paste’s Kevin Keller [...]

Austin Chronicle: ABCs of ACL – N is for Nakia, Review & More…

The Austin Chronicle has posted several items about my appearance with Sharon Jones and our set on Sunday at the WaMu tent. Here’s a quick sampling… From the “ABCs of ACL” post: N is for Nakia: The local soul grizzly danced on stage with Sharon Jones on Saturday and led his Southern Cousins in one [...]

Nakia Was Sharon Jones’ “good man” At ACL Fest

PHOTOS Please note… If you use any of these photos, please attribute them to the folks who were kind enough to take them and post them. They are listed for each photo. Austin360.com posted a pic of Sharon & Nakia in their Day 2 Gallery. Image number 42 of 74. An amazing photo by deneyterio [...]

News 8 Rooftop Performance Of Water To Wine

In case you missed it when News 8 Austin broadcast it earlier this week, here is a link to the live performance that Mac and I did for their Rooftop series with Andy Langer. Nakia – Water To Wine – Live From The News 8 Rooftop

News 8 Austin: Local Singer Says Playing ACL Is Dream Come True

Following our knock ‘em dead performance at the Four Seasons as part of the KGSR ACL preview show, I was approached by a beautiful young reporter from News 8 Austin. Heidi Zhou said she had enjoyed our performance and heard a bit of my “story” and asked me if I would be interested in being [...]

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