Suzanne Tripp

Oh, great.

Hi, Jan and team.

My name is Suzanne Tripp.

I'm a musician from Medicine Hat, Alberta.

I live in Montreal now and I'm leaving this message with you today for two reasons.

Part of it is that I would love to be a guest on your podcast.

I'm working on a really cool project right now.

I'm coming out with an EP this summer called Willow Sap and it's featured centrally around a song that I wrote about my grandmother.

The song is called Nancy May and it is about

How in 1964, my grandmother joined a target shooting competition against 79 men and won first place.

And the following year, they changed the rules of the competition so that women could no longer enter.

And I thought it was such a beautiful story.

And my Nana is such an incredible woman.

So I wrote her, her tale into a bluegrass song.

And then this spring, just two months ago, it went viral on TikTok and has had almost 2 million views at this point.

And each time I post it since then, it's gone viral.

So I'm just trying my best to take advantage of the momentum that my song is getting right now.

And so the second point of wanting to be interviewed is also that I have my feelers out trying to find donors to make small donations to my Kickstarter that will fund the completion of the EP that Nancy May is part of.

I recorded Nancy May myself and it'll come out this month.

So that's the biggest thing that I'm promoting right now.