Nick Spear and Susan O’Dea live in two different worlds. She’s urban, he’s rural. She’s a kale chicken caesar, he’s last night’s cold pizza. On paper, they shouldn’t work. But Big Sky City Lights has never lived on paper — it lives in the convergence- the imaginary town halfway between Spear’s sky-filled Montana landscapes and O’Dea’s Manhattan concrete; two voices, effortless and aligned. What started with creatively reimagined covers for online audiences quickly gathered a groundswell that pushed them into original songwriting and the creation of their first album "Wake Me When We Get There."

Their sound, stripped-down and cinematic, landed them a feature on Good Morning America — who called them “emblematic of the state of Montana” — and won them coveted opening spots at Sisters Folk Festival, Red Ants Pants Festival, and Under The Big Sky Festival, sharing bills with artists like Jason Isbell, Tyler Childers, Emmylou Harris and others. Most recently, Nick and Susan were featured on the Montana PBS program 11th & Grant for which they have earned an Emmy nomination.

Live configurations range from an intimate duo with guitars to a five-piece band with bass, drums, and keyboards — though the core of the thing remains two voices from opposite worlds finding the same frequency.