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Indie rock musician comes to Nanaimo on tour for new album

Naomi Kavka will play the Vault Café on May 10
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Naomi Kavka and her band will play the Vault Café on Friday, May 10. (Photo contributed)

A multi-instrumentalist will be filling a Nanaimo venue with her indie-rock stylings this week.

Naomi Kavka of Smithers is touring her new single Landline from her upcoming album Then and Now, and will be playing a show Friday, May 10, at the Vault Café.

“A classically trained cellist, vocalist, and guitar player, Kavka brings a myriad of influences to her songs, forming a daring indie-rock sound that is musically polished, lyrically visceral, and emotionally raw,” noted a press release. “Her songs come from the unique perspective of a queer woman, a child of a refugee, a resident of the precipice of the wilderness of Canada.”

Bandmates Geoff McFarlane, Ian Olmstead, Jake Jenne and Jordy Walker bring a blended background of jazz, classical, folk and rock to Kavka’s “driving indie jams, melancholic ballads, snarky anthems, and art rock improvisations,” the release added.

Admission is $15 and doors open at 8 p.m.

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