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Watch video clips: 1 | 2For Nathan Ferraro and the rest of The Midway State, music isn’t just something you play. It’s something you feel.
The fresh faced, piano driven quartet have a musical bloodline far beyond their years, stemming from summer tours as teenagers across their native Canada to music theory classes at the University of Toronto. The result is a mixture of powerful arena rock ballads, soulful singalongs and an overwhelming, impassioned feeling audiences can’t deny.
Who We Are
"We’re four guys that are a fairly new band still, but we’re on the road constantly working out all our kinks."
Life on the Road
"Being on tour at the level that we’re at – as an opening band in a van – it’s not the rock ‘n roll lifestyle that you always dream of. But I can say for sure that we love the music that we’re making and I love the songs that I love to write and work on. And the reactions that we get from people every night and seeing the word actually get spread… that kind of makes it worthwhile."
Family Backbone
"My parents are absolutely amazing. They’re the most supportive people in my life by far… (They’ve) never been super strict about, ‘You have to get a job this summer and make $8 an hour and save up so you can do a lot of other things.’ They just told me the most important things in my life were that I was happy and that if it was important to me to be working on my music and touring with my band, they were going to support that."
Adult Situations
"There’s a song that’s going to be on our full length record and that’s about an affair. It’s not like I’ve ever actually experienced that – I hope that I never do – but just watching movies and having friends and just thinking about that kind of stuff… That’s the kind of stuff that I’ll lie in bed at night and stress myself out about."
Thinking Outside the Box
"Whether you grew up in Omaha, Nebraska or Collingwood, Ontario, you’ve got to have the confidence and look at your music. You have the same human experience and the same potential to reach people as some kid that grew up in Hollywood or New York City or London."
Where Fashion Sense Makes Common Sense
"By the time I was in grade 9, I had a little afro. By the time I was in grade 12, I had this little white man’s afro that I have now. It’s cool because it’s easy to recognize for people so I’m not going to cut my hair yet."
