Interview with Hayley McKay

Together with American Songwriter, we had the pleasure of interviewing Hayley McKay over Zoom video! After recently receiving international acclaim with a number 1 on the Ignition Country Charts for previous single, this North East Country star is back with another uptempo Country pop banger, Breathe.Written in Lockdown in May and co written and produced with Newcastle basedHattie Murdoch over zoom, the song features pulsating rhythmic guitar, flowingdrums and big melody with slick production and deep bv’s. Inspired by the lockdown, it’s about being able to enjoy the smaller things in life and taking that all important breather that we all need sometime, something much needed in 2020.Hayley is an accomplished and insightful songwriter with an incredible vocal rangewith a distinctive all-round style, which can effortlessly leap from earthy and soulfulraw emotion to soaring and ethereal angelic tones likened to Eva Cassidy, JoniMitchel, LeAnn Rimes and Kate Bush. Over the last few years she’s been co-writingsongs with award winning songwriters such as Nashville’s twice Grammy-nominatedsongwriter Jan Buckingham (Whitney Houston), Bill DiLuigi, Claire Hamill (EvaCassidy, Wishbone Ash), Andy Vitoli, Phil Caffrey and producer/writer HattieMurdoch with many news songs to be released over 2021.Breathe comes after great international response from previous single ‘ThinkingAbout Last Night’ (April 3rd) after gaining international support from Ireland, UK andwas recently voted in the top 10 Valley FM Indie charts in Australia and in the top 3best new singles in Ireland. It has also gathered support on BBC Introducing. McKaywas also artist of the week on various international radio stations in the US and theUK with features in Country Line TV, BMCA and ISSA (International SongwritersAssociation).With a forever growing online fanbase with over 6,000 followers across her socials,she has also had long running national TV, Radio and media support from the BBCwith features in the Telegraph, Crack Magazine and ‘Track of the Week’ on manyoccasions on local BBC Radio Tees along with several podcasts and sessions such asBob Harris's Under the Apple Tree in home studio. She has also performed on TVshows including RTE, The today Show-Ireland’s biggest daytime TV show, STVScottish TV including many of her music videos being played on Keep it Country TV.In 2011 Hayley entered a national talent competition and winning a nice cash prize,which helped towards the costs of her studying at BIMM (Brighton) and Access toMusic in London amongst her peer Jess Glynne. Since then, with a huge love ofperforming she has played up and down the country playing numerous shows, Toursand major festivals including Glastonbury, Cornbury, Latitude, The Sage AmericanaFestival, Hardwick Live and only last year, the iconic music venue The SageSummertyne Americana Festival. McKay has also supported major acts Tom Jones,Albert Lee, Scouting for Girls, Martha Reeves and Hazel O'Connor and was due tohave a big 2020 with confirmed performances at C2C: Country-to-Country at the O2Arena in London, The British Country Festival and the famous Glastonbury. All nowre-scheduled for 2021.We want to hear from you! Please email [email protected]#podcast #interview #bringinbackpod  #foryou #foryoupage #stayhome #togetherathome #zoom #aspn #americansongwriter #americansongwriterpodcastnetworkListen & Subscribe to BiBFollow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter!--- Support this podcast: