From Junior Choir to the ECMAs
By Ana Watts
The Chelsea Nisbett who sang in the Junior Choir at St. John the Baptist in Riverview was a cute-as-a-button little girl. She started singing publicly on her own at the church’s Young Musicians Program under former organist James Duffett. The Chelsea Nisbett
nominated for two East Coast Music Awards (ECMAs) is a confident and beautiful young woman with a mature voice, strong faith and a successful CD.
“I’m really excited to have four showcases and to be nominated for two ECMAs this year,” says the Dalhousie University student who plans to take the summer away from work and school to take her music on an East Coast Canadian tour. “I’m going to do my music full-time this summer and the tour starts in May.”
During her junior choir days Chelsea used to put pictures of herself on blank cassette tapes and pretend they were her own recordings. Now that she is a fourth-year French student at Dal looking toward an education degree from Mt. St. Vincent, her picture appears on the cover of her own real CD New Beginnings and it garnered her nominations for the Gospel Recording of the Year and African-Canadian Recording of the Year categories at this year’s ECMAs to be held in Fredericton Feb. 7-10. The recording has already won her Inspirational Artist/Recording of the Year from Music Nova Scotia.
Chelsea and the other Gospel Recording nominees Evangeline Inman, Richard Paul, the LaPointes and the Kelly J. Band, will be on the Gospel Stage of Sunset Church, 429 Clements Drive in Fredericton North on Saturday evening (Feb. 9) at 7 o’clock. Admission at the door is $12, $25 for families.
It’s a busy night for Chelsea, because beginning at 9:30 that night at the Musiplex, 15 CityView Ave., also on Fredericton’s north side, she and Universal Language, Neveah, Faith Antoine, Gary Beals, Jordan Croucher and Trobiz will be on the Black Vines stage competing for the African-Canadian Recording of the Year award. Tickets for that event are $15.
Chelsea’s father Tom Nisbett is active in this diocese and lives near Moncton. Chelsea now lives near Halifax with her mother Virginia and is active in the Vineyard Church in Lower Sackville.
