Natasha Blackwood
Natasha Blackwood is a singer/songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist from Newfoundland, Canada. Her sophomore solo album Love Songs for Good Machines is a jazz album with pop sensibilities, rooted in modern-day folk storytelling. This collection of original songs received national and international critical acclaim and radio play, as well as nominations for two ECMA awards, and four MusicNL Awards, including a win for Jazz Artist of the Year (2025). Ian Lomax of The Jazz Journal (UK) described the album as "...a delight. Fun and entertaining at one level, but worth a deeper dive into the lyrics to explore exactly where she is coming from... a rare talent".
Blackwood is a proud member of ECMA award-winning group Eastern Owl, and Newfoundland’s premiere Jazz Orchestra, Jazz East Big Band. She has spent decades as a session musician playing woodwinds, piano, guitar, and percussion, recording and performing with the likes of Amelia Curran, The Burning Hell, and Quote the Raven. While known as a musical jill-of-all-trades, her true love has always been the pen. She has written/arranged pieces for choirs and large ensembles, songwriters, bands, and theatre companies all over Canada. In 2025, she joined the team at CYMBA Music to publish her existing, and newly developed original works worldwide.
Music has brought her to performances in Brazil, Europe, and all over Canada, but she’s always a baygirl at heart. She can de-bone a fish, boost your car, drive stick with a hydraulic clutch, and make a mean jiggs dinner. She has been compared to Joni Mitchell and she's obsessed with Ella Fitzgerald, but she'll always make time to play campfire chords on guitar and sing "fishing in the dark" with her family.