Keyboard-based singer-songwriter Nancy Rost made her performance debut in May 2005. Since then she's been inflicting her multi-genre music on a wide variety of unsuspecting Midwestern audiences.

With twisted roots as a toy-piano-playing member of the Boulder street outfit The Blimping Blues Band and a backup singer with barn-punks Curtains, she brings a fresh sound to such conventional song topics as ice-fishing chic, the plight of airplanes painted to look like killer whales, and the secret lives of condiments.

Her rural-prison-construction song Welcome to Boscobel is included on the December 2005 Madison songwriter compilation CD Made at Home, Volume 2. Welcome to Boscobel has also been covered by country-folk musician Stephen Lee Rich and was recorded for his forthcoming live CD.

She is a winner of the Madison Song Showdown performing songwriter contest, a finalist in the 2007 Midwest Song Contest, and the subject of a bevy of Garageband.com reviewers' picks. She is a two-time finisher of February Album Writing Month, a challenge to write 14 songs in 28 days.