Meet the Market Musicians:
Fromage Chaud & Natalia Chai

Fromage Chaud

FROMAGE CHAUD, is a duo featuring Linda Kitchin and Darcy North. Linda is a dazzling string player, who performs on mandolin, violin, and guitar. Darcy is a virtuoso accordionist. Fromage Chaud plays World Beat, dance, jazz, and blues.

We are well-accomplished musicians and songwriters whose repertoire spans different genres, showcasing our versatility.  We bring our unique style to each genre whether it be the songs and tunes of old-time folk, the various rhythmic beats of world music, jazz and soulful blues.

Natalia Chai

Hailing from Edmonton, Natalia Chai is an independent, solo, R&B/Neosoul singer-songwriter based in Calgary.

Classically trained in piano from age 6, Natalia’s music brings back the nostalgia of old school R&B, Neosoul, and jazz with a sultry voice described as “honey to the ears.” Natalia has two albums and 8 singles released since entering into the music scene in 2017 that discuss tough topics about the human condition in today’s complex society. She has shared her sound internationally most notably at the 2018 Chengdu International Sister Cities Youth Music Festival.

Natalia’s musicianship found her role expand to session keyboardist/vocalist for other artist’s projects; contributions to production projects in the film industry with 1844 Studios such as CBC GEM “My Lyric I Never Knew,” written/produced the soundtrack for an experimental short film called, “Power Moves.” She composed/arranged a jazz ensemble for a proof of concept TV comedy series that debuted at TIFF 2022 and is cast as one of the characters on the show.

Natalia is also a composer/arranger in collaboration with local EDM DJ, Joel Jove and string ensemble, Stringendo called Electronic Symphonia that fuses classical music with EDM and R&B. Last but not least, Natalia is also 1 of 2 parts of an instrumental, songwriting and production duo that blends R&B/Hiphop and Jazz.