‘A great night’: MacKenzie Porter hyped, but nervous, for Medicine Hat Stampede show
“I talked to my mother yesterday on the telephone and it’s the present that I’m going to be essentially the most nervous for this summer time as a result of I really feel like there’s like this strain,” she says. “I need to make my household proud that night time.”
Her need to make individuals proud on July 28 truly extends past her household to the neighborhood that she says has been supporting her since earlier than she had a report deal.
Porter has already racked up miles within the U.S. this spring and summer time and has Ottawa Bluesfest and Nation Thunder Saskatchewan on her calendar earlier than Drugs Hat.
Porter is worked up concerning the present she’s bought and shall be able to roll with regardless of the night time brings, saying you by no means know what’s going to occur at a present.
“The opposite day we performed Vegas and it was 102 levels and our pc rig similar to overheated so there at all times like random issues that occur that you just’re like ‘we will’t plan for that,’” she says. “However what I do know is that we’re going to have a lot enjoyable and I’ve a present that I’m actually happy with. And you already know if little issues go flawed right here or there it doesn’t matter as a result of we’re going to have like a terrific, a terrific night time and I get to, you already know, play in entrance of lots of people that I do know and love.”
She’ll additionally get a lift from being again in her dwelling nation. It had been greater than two years since she performed in Canada when she took the stage at Cavendish Seashore Music Competition on Prince Edward Island on Thursday.
“I couldn’t even consider the quantity of individuals singing the songs,” she says. “After I don’t reside right here I don’t hear it on the radio right here and I don’t get to expertise the little issues that present that persons are listening to your music. So once I come dwelling now it’s a lot greater than I assumed it was.”
Tickets for Porter’s present can be found from the Stampede website or the workplace.
