Hatch, with Hannah Wrathall, is a new podcast series where we have conversations with creatives about starting something new.

The very first guest is Jamie McDell, a singer and songwriter. Her records have achieved Gold album sales, they have featured on American TV series including Pretty Little Liars. She’s been nominated for and has won a range of New Zealand Music Awards. Her music is truly elegant and honest, (can confirm that her acapella at the end of the episode will most definitely give you goosebumps!) 

Jamie has been in the industry for a decade, and more recently made the confronting and brave decision to (figuratively) depart from the safe commercial pop world, and (literally) move to the Northern Hemisphere to work in Nashville, to produce an Americana/Country style of music that’s more true to who she is. 

We chat about the music world in the one and only Nashville, how she’s evolved as a musician, how terrible events can be a catalyst for her writing her greatest music, the pressure she’s faced by the industry to look or “be” a certain way (including that time she walked the red carpet in a shark costume in opposition to aforementioned pressure), isolation and the realities of pursuing a career that offers no guarantees. 

Jamie is raw, wise and hilarious. And... You can get more of her!

Jamie on Spotify

Jamie on Instagram

Jamie's website

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You can also drop me a note at hannahwrathall@gmail.com with questions, guest ideas or general thoughts - I’d love to hear from you!

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