Montana Traditions Stage Performer | Kalispell, MT
Musician, model and actress Halladay Quist was born and raised under the Swan Mountains in Montana, living the life of a traveling musical gypsy and loving the hum of a big bus engine under her feet. The daughter of a famous musician Rob Quist, harmonies became the background music of her childhood and she began developing an innate passion for music of all kinds.
Halladay started her musical education early with piano at age six and guitar soon after. Her first songs were written in the turbulent years of teenage readjustment, a sweet escape from the trials of adolescence and the loss of her warrior conservationist aunt who passed at her childhood home, a Montana ranch. With a little nudging from her father, she started getting stage experience in her teens, singing classics like Bonnie Raitt’s “Love Me Like a Man.”
Halladay was handed her first belt notch when her brother’s rock bass player quit two weeks before a summer tour. After learning four hours of rock bass in two weeks, she went on the road after high school graduation. They ended the tour at the Rockin’ the Rivers festival where Berry Oakley Jr. deemed her the “2-Week Wonder.” After the tour, she went to college and toured Europe for four months with a choir, singing the dark ominous movements of Mozart’s Requiem all over Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Italy. Halladay sings, plays bass, banjo, and guitar, and has recently released an EP titled In the Sun.