{"id":16770,"date":"2018-11-21T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16770"},"modified":"2018-11-29T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:30:38","slug":"torontos-ralph-brings-her-best-self-to-stages-across-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/11\/21\/torontos-ralph-brings-her-best-self-to-stages-across-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto\u2019s Ralph brings her best self to stages across Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto synth-pop artist Ralph (also known as Raffaela Weyman) is touring her new album A Good Girl<\/i> across Canada, and her cooler bags are packed with Tupperwares full of salad and homemade turkey meatballs. An array of audiences awaits her on her journey, and she is working hard to make sure she brings her best to every stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eating healthy, exercising, and taking those little opportunities to relax are Ralph\u2019s keys to success while on tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know when you\u2019re touring it\u2019s already hard enough because every day you\u2019re in a new city, you\u2019re in a new bedroom,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have your little comforts that you know keep you on a routine. For me, that\u2019s a huge thing. I think that if you don\u2019t feel good on the inside then you\u2019re not gonna feel good on the outside, and then you\u2019re just not gonna feel good, period. You know, I think it really shows on stage if I\u2019ve had junk food or if I just feel off of my normal routine, so I try to maintain a semblance of how I eat at home, and even working out and just stretching and doing yoga in my room if I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Toronto\u2019s Ralph has learned lessons from her time on the road (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From folk music to synth-pop, Ralph\u2019s style has grown and developed through her musical career, but she has always found it important to be authentic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always felt like if you kind of create a contrived image it does become a bit transparent, and I think it must be hard to kind of keep up, too,\u201d says Ralph. \u201cSo I\u2019ve always been very true to who I am. When I was doing folk music, the stuff that I was wearing on stage and in the photos, that was me at the time. Now with this sort of fun glam pop stuff, like, that is me. I wear all that stuff because it\u2019s me. It\u2019s evolved, for sure, but it\u2019s always felt very genuine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early in her musical career, Ralph learned to be grateful for every opportunity to make an impression on an audience, no matter the size.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was younger, I remember being in a band and performing for small audiences,\u201d she says. \u201cI think those experiences are actually super important because they\u2019re humbling. And you realize that you have a choice to either feel bummed that there\u2019s nine people in the audience and do a shitty job on stage, or you go, \u2018You know what? I\u2019m gonna play the best fucking show that these nine people have ever seen, and they\u2019re gonna walk away and tell all their friends.\u2019 Now, me and my band will sometimes joke, like, \u2018Oh my god, is that show gonna be tonight? Are there gonna be nine people in the audience?\u2019 But you\u2019re kinda ready and you\u2019re okay emotionally if it is a smaller audience and then pleasantly surprised when it\u2019s a huge audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

These early lessons that she learned help Ralph to appreciate some of the more extreme experiences of her career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember we did this show this summer,\u201d she says. \u201cWe opened for Charlotte Cardin in Quebec for this festival called FestiVoix and we thought maybe it would be like 500 people, and we get there and it\u2019s like 10,000 people, maybe more, and it was just us and Charlotte that night, and it was so cool. For my drummer and my keys player, it was one of the first shows they did with me, and it was really cool to be like, \u2018Okay, here, guys; not every show is gonna be like this but we get to do cool stuff.\u2019 You just never know with shows what you\u2019re gonna get, which makes them exciting and terrifying at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ralph
\n7:30 pm Thursday, November 29
\n$10, The Copper Owl
\ncopperowl.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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