Nancy McIntosh - Vocals & Keyboards  Return to Band Intro Page

Nancy ’s love for music comes naturally.  As the daughter of well-known Northwestern musician, Frederick Reynold “Renny” Foster, Nancy grew up in a house always filled with music.  Her dad used to let her tag along to rehearsals when he was the Assistant Conductor and Lead Sax man  at Harrah’s South Shore Room in Lake Tahoe .  There she met stars like Sammy Davis Jr., Wayne Newton, Donald O’Conner, and Jack Benny.  This put the bug in her to perform.  She remembers singing around the piano since about the age of 5 (singing classics such as "five foot two, eyes of blue"......and "it was an itsy-bitsy, teeny-tiny, yellow polka-dot bikini"....well, you get the picture).  Later she recalls being a featured soloist at numerous school concerts from grade school through high school.  Upon graduating from high school in the early 70’s, she spent her evenings honing her musical abilities at North Bend , Oregon's “Little  Theater on the Bay” in productions such as Cabaret, and Jesus Christ Superstar.  After she moved to Boise, ID from Phoenix , AZ in 1981, she joined local Nampa-based band Snowblind.  On occasion she would sit in and sing with Dave Robinette of the Solution Brothers at “The Alibi” bar in Boise. Nancy provided recorded background vocals when Dave and Russ first began the Solution Brothers as a duo.  Nancy could be heard says Dave as “the two black chicks” singing backup.  In 1998, after fighting the corporate battle and staying out of music for nearly 10 years, Nancy formed Next Exit.  The band has undergone many changes over the last couple of years but is better than ever!  The name of the band came from explaining that when you were arriving in Caldwell to come to band practice you should not take the first Caldwell exit, but the "NEXT EXIT."  Of course now that Nancy has relocated to her old stomping grounds in Coos Bay, Oregon the name will stay while taking that particular Idaho exit no longer makes sense.  Oh, well!  Life goes on!