Vanessa has been playing with
multi-Grammy-nominated Americana artist
Brandy Clark
since 2017 and is her bass player, backing vocalist, and musical director.
Vanessa and acclaimed New Zealand songwriter Cy Winstanley formed
Tattletale Saints
in 2012, and moved the band to Nashville in 2014.
The Nashville-based band won the NZ Music Award for Folk in 2014 for their debut album, How Red Is the Blood, produced by Grammy award winner Tim O’Brien, and again in 2021 for their third studio album, Dancing Under The Dogwoods.