They keep getting younger every day.
Bragg Creek singer/ songwriter and piano player Sarah Troy has four CDs to her credit already and she is only 16.
“I recorded my first CD when I was 10, but that was only an EP,” said Troy who makes her Lethbridge debut at the Mocha Cabana on Friday, June 3.
She has a lot of relatives including grandparents in Lethbridge.
“I have a lot of relatives there and it’s going to be awesome, because I have never played for them before,” she said.
She has been busy playing a variety of events on the weekends including at the University of Calgary, on Thursday, before she comes to Lethbridge
She will be performing with guitarist/ vocalist Aaron Pollock.
“It is going to be awesome. We are working on a variety of things. We have three hours of music, so we have some covers as well, ” she said.
She credits her parents for giving her an early start in the music business.
“My parents have really been nothing but helpful and supportive. They are always pushing me. They give me the loan for a CD and then I pay them back through CD sales,” she said.
“I think it really has been a privilege to be able to do all these things most people don’t get to do until they get older and go to school. But I’m getting all these experiences as a kid,” she said.
She took up piano at age six and immediately took to it.
“I took some theory. I’ve never really taken lessons. I’ve never taken the Royal Conservatory,” she said.
She described each CD she has released as a learning experience.
“This is the biggest step I’ve taken. The others were basically baby steps. But I had a lot of faith in these songs, so this is the first one that we recorded in a professional studio with a producer,” she said.
Before she brought the studio to her home and recorded it there.
“But we could focus a lot more time on the details, be creative and take it to the next level,” she continued.
She took up piano at age six and immediately took to it.
“I took some theory. I’ve never really taken lessons. I’ve never taken the Royal Conservatory,” she said.
The
most important lesson she learned throughout the process of recording
four CDs is how to juggle a plenitude of different activities like work,
school and music.
“That’s a tough question. But I guess the biggest lesson I've learned is how to juggle a lot of different things. A lot of people don’t know how to do that when they go to college. I hope I’ll be prepared for it,” she said.
She earned a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee School of Music in Boston for an intensive five week course last summer and received another for this summer.
“Last summer I was so nervous about it. It’s a condensed version of their college program,” she said adding she was nervous about going but her mom flew down with her. This summer she is flying on her own with a couple of friends including guitarist/ singer Aaron Pollock who will be performing at the Mocha Cabana with her. Another friend, Brent Mills, will also be going to Boston with her.
“I’m nervous about it. I’ve never flown anywhere on my own before. But it will be an adventure,” she said.
Sarah Troy will be playing at the Mocha Cabana from approximately 6:30 p.m. until 9 p.m., Friday, June 3.
