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06/15/2017 12:01 AMNyce! featuring Old Saybrook native Nic Lefebvre and Danielle Ryce will play at The Kate, 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook, on Wednesday, June 21, at 7:30 p.m.
Nyce! is an eclectic pop group rooted in New Orleans that promises to deliver “a highly contagious musical experience filled with emotive soul and uninhibited energy,” says Ryce, also a founding member of the group. She met Lefebvre at Loyola University.
“Nic Lefebvre and I met as freshmen at Loyola University in New Orleans. He was studying jazz bass, and I was studying classical violin,” Ryce says. “We met because we were always in the practice rooms late at night when no else was around. From there, our friendship grew. We would talk about our favorite musicians, and realized we had a lot in common, from Queen to Regina Spektor. Toward the end of our junior year, we started to share our originals with each other and eventually fell into playing our songs together.”
The summer before their senior year, they officially formed the group, she says. They started as a duo busking on the streets of the New Orleans French Quarter in 2013, and then became a fully fledged band, “a four-piece group that performs and headlines at venues in New Orleans like Tipitina’s, The Howlin’ Wolf, Gasa Gasa, and many more.”
The quartet includes violin, upright bass, guitar, drums, and vocals.
It has toured to numerous cities across America, including New York City, Boston, Nashville, and more. Music from its first full length album, One, has been broadcast on radio locally and across America. Lately, Nyce! has been in the studio recording new work to be released in summer 2017, and planning another Northeast tour.