With the rumbling of construction and the click-clacking of heels on pavement above, Nikki Schultz is in her basement studio in Cedar-Riverside quietly writing music that swells with an emotional intensity and intellectual depth uncommon for a self-taught singer/songwriter who's only been at it for three short years.

Combining elements of folk rock, jazz and soul, Nikki contributes her authentically smart songwriting style to the Twin Cities urban folk scene with her debut cd Lost and Found {and lost again}. Her stories illustrate delicate losses and personal victories, addressing the heavier issues of gentrification, death and unrequited love while incorporating more buoyant references to Hanna Barbera cartoons and the maker of that righteous triangle formula we all learned in high school.

Band: Andrew Lynch: electric guitar, keys, glockenspiel, melodica, vocals; Adri Mehra: bass; Sarah Woolever: percussion, vocals