From supporting Noah Kahan at Hyde Park to preparing for a headline show in London, Maya Lane has ticked a lot off her bucket list already this year.
The singer-songwriter will take to the stage alongside her band at The Grace on Wednesday, September 3, with support from Robbie Cavanagh. Compared to shorter festival sets, the show will give Maya the chance to premiere new tracks.
“I’m going to be able to showcase some of the new songs from the EP,” Maya said, referring to the newly announced The Hurt And The Healing. “We’re excited to get the show rolling.”
Already available to listen to is Maya’s latest single, I Don’t Know You Yet, which is about falling in love with someone you don’t know. “It’s a ballad about someone in your head that you’ve come up with,” Maya revealed. “It’s just about sitting in that moment and thinking about all those future things and then bringing yourself back to reality.”
Last month, Maya played at BST Hyde Park, supporting Stick Season singer Noah Kahan. Joining a lineup that included Gracie Abrams, Jo Hill and Gigi Perez, Maya opened up the Birdcage Stage ahead of a full day of live music. “I still feel like I haven’t fully processed what happened,” Maya said. “It was amazing to be in a lineup with so many artists I love.”
Maya said that at the beginning of the year, she added the BST Hyde Park poster to her vision board, which sets out what she wants to achieve in a year. “I always put a few [events] on that I feel are a little far fetched, so I put a picture of the Noah Kahan announcement that he was playing. A couple of months later, I got a call. It felt like a crazy moment.”
With a performance scheduled this summer at Lutterworth’s Long Road Festival, Maya is one of the ones to watch in the UK country music scene. Back in March, she was asked to join the lineup for Country 2 Country Festival, Europe’s biggest celebration of the genre. After receiving a last-minute call, she had only two days to prepare for the performance. “I think it made it so much more fun. It gave me less time to overthink and worry about it. It ended up being a really fun show.”
Earlier this year, Country 2 Country was headlined by Lainey Wilson, Dierks Bentley and Cody Johnson, bringing more than 20 thousand fans to London, Belfast and Glasgow. “It was amazing to be playing there,” Maya said. “The abundance of country music is so great. I think it’s a nice moment for the country music community in the UK to get together.”
Since she began making music, Maya said she has seen a notable increase in the love for country music, especially with young people. “It’s exciting for someone who makes that kind of music to see it gaining popularity. It feels as if there is a space for us young people at the moment, which hasn’t always been that way. Even though we haven’t had as much life experience as some people, we’ve got stories to tell.”
