Local Teen Among "Rising Stars" at WAMI Awards
Brookfield East High School junior and country music singer-songwriter Nora Collins is being recognized at the WAMI Awards Show.
Local student and country music singer-songwriter Nora Collins has captured the ear of industry officials, had her songs played on local radio and recorded with Nashville music legends. Now Collins, 16, will have a new honor: nomination as a 2010 "Rising Star" in Sunday's Wisconsin Area Music Industry (WAMI) Awards show. Collins and the four other nominees in that category — Katie Lafond, Orpheus, Tallan Latz, and Jayne Taylor — were each nominated by a current WAMI member. The show will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Pabst Theater's Turner Hall Ballroom and $25 general admission tickets are available. Nora’s songs are featured weekly on FM106.1’s Home Made Jams show on Sunday nights. When she first started writing songs, two years ago, …
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Lisa Sink
9:24 pm on Thursday, April 14, 2011
Ann, Ed and Kathy, I need to check her out at Potbelly's one of these weekends. Amazing how poised she is for 16! more ›