Following a life-changing Canadian tour, Dutch country breakout Quinty’s is preparing for her biggest chapter yet. Ahead of her move to Winnipeg and a performance at the CCMA Country Crawl in Saskatoon, Quinty’s is releasing her warm, fiddle-led single “Stuck” on September 25. The song explores the uneasy space between friendship and romance—a feeling that closely mirrors her own experience standing on the edge of a new life across the Atlantic.
Here, Quinty opens up about her upcoming move, the story behind the new track, and making her mark on the global country scene.
Your new single “Stuck” explores the tension of waiting for a relationship to move forward. What inspired you to turn that specific emotional space into a song?
It symbolizes the one thing that kept returning in my life: the concept of a slow burn. It’s the thing that doesn’t happen overnight and takes its sweet time to unfold. For me, the best example of that has got to be pursuing a career in music and building it from the ground up.
You can work incredibly hard, take every opportunity, send every email and do everything within your control, but there’s still this part you simply can’t rush. At some point, you have to let things unfold in their own time. And as someone who isn’t exactly known for her patience, I find that both incredibly frustrating and kind of beautiful.
A relationship was the perfect way for me to tell that story because the feeling is so similar. You know something is happening, you know you care about where it’s going, but you can’t skip ahead to find out how it ends. That longing, anticipation and curiosity is what “Stuck” is really about to me. It’s about being right in the middle of something that matters to you and learning to exist there for a while.
Sonically, “Stuck” leans into a warm, fiddle-led arrangement. How did you land on that specific sound for this track?
Making the decision to put fiddle at the heart of this song was probably my favourite moment in the studio. Murray and I had just finished arranging all the guitars when we started brainstorming what country elements we still wanted to bring in. It had been a dream of mine to have fiddle on one of my songs, but none of the songs I’d made so far had really called for it.
Then Murray casually went, “Could be fiddle,” and it just clicked. There’s actually a video of me squealing when he says it, which I should probably post on my socials at some point, haha.
And we got incredibly lucky, because Jenee Fleenor, who is a five-time CMA Musician of the Year and plays live with George Strait, ended up adding her fiddle-magic to the song.
There’s something about this instrument that captures yearning so well. It can feel warm and beautiful while still having this ache underneath it, which is exactly where “Stuck” lives emotionally. It almost became another voice in the song rather than just another instrument.
The single touches on themes of patience and uncertainty, which reflect your own current journey. How does your upcoming move to Winnipeg mirror the emotions behind “Stuck”?
Oohh, I love how you made that connection there, because it’s almost scary how close the similarities are. Honestly? If you had told me a year ago that I would be moving to Canada and living in Winnipeg… I probably would have given you a look as if you were crazy. And that is without any offence to anyone, haha. Canada wasn’t even on my radar then.
This all happened so fast, and I still don’t know how it ends. I just jumped and followed what felt right. There’s nothing I can force after I’ve taken action, and so far that strategy has opened more doors than I could’ve imagined.
So I think that’s where the connection to “Stuck” really is. There’s a difference between standing still and being somewhere in the middle of something. I’m taking every step I can, but I can’t fast-forward to find out what Canada will become for me. I have to actually live that part of the story first. And as impatient as I can be, I think there’s something incredibly exciting about that too.
You’re performing at the CCMA Country Crawl at Amigos Cantina on September 18. How are you feeling about playing Country Music Week in Saskatoon right before your release?
It’s insane and such a great privilege to get an opportunity like that. Besides the fact that it happens exactly a week before the release, performing during Country Music Week was one of those bucket-list things I wanted to accomplish as soon as possible…with the slight inconvenience that it only happens once a year, haha.
Receiving the email that I had been selected was appropriately celebrated with a very good bowl of ramen in Amsterdam.
But beyond being able to say I performed during Country Music Week, what excites me most is getting to bring my music in front of people I’ve never met before. It’ll be my first time in Saskatoon and essentially my introduction to Saskatchewan, so I have no idea how people there will respond to me or my music yet. That’s such a fun part of being an artist.
Your first Canadian tour sparked the decision to immigrate permanently from the Netherlands. What was it about Canada that felt like home for your music?
Can I say that it was totally instinctive? I know that’s not the rational answer we’re usually looking for, but it is what started it all. The way you guys welcomed me with such open arms, listened to my stories, came up to me after the shows and felt safe enough to share your own… something about it just made sense.
While I’m technically relocating rather than immigrating permanently, deciding to base myself in Canada still felt like a huge leap. But strangely, the decision itself never felt that scary. My music seemed to find a place here before I consciously decided that I wanted one too.
Country music is storytelling to me, and I felt like people here genuinely wanted to listen to those stories. Not just hear the songs, but connect with what was underneath them. That happened at shows, at radio, in conversations with complete strangers and even in the friendships I started building along the way.
I don’t think I came home from that first trip with a perfectly rational list of reasons why Canada was the right place. I just came home knowing I wasn’t done with it yet. And apparently my response to that feeling was to move across the Atlantic, so here we are, haha.
Dutch radio and Spotify playlists like EQUAL Benelux have given you strong support. How does it feel to step away from that established local scene to build a foundation in North America?
The ironic thing is that I barely view it as “stepping away.” Canada has always felt like an expansion of what we’ve already built rather than leaving something behind. I joke that Taylor Swift can manage the world, so surely I should be able to manage a career in the Netherlands AND Canada, haha. But I genuinely still view it that way.
I’ve built something really valuable in the Netherlands over the past few years. There are people who have supported my music from the beginning, radio stations that have played my songs and an audience that continues to grow with me. Moving across the Atlantic doesn’t suddenly make any of that disappear.
If anything, I’m only seeing more possibilities to connect the two. I’ve been amazed by how many people with Dutch roots I’ve already met in Canada, and there’s something really fun about bringing this little piece of where I come from into a completely new market.
“Stuck” is actually a great example. We’ll have radio campaigns running simultaneously in both the Netherlands and Canada. So I don’t really see myself choosing one country over the other. I’m building a career that hopefully gets to exist in both.
Reaching over 1.7 million streams and hitting No. 2 on Spotify’s Country & Americana playlist are major milestones. Looking back, which moment felt like the biggest validation of your work?
This is such a hard question because, strangely, I don’t think the numbers have ever been the biggest validation for me. Don’t get me wrong, watching a song cross a milestone or seeing my name at No. 2 on a Spotify editorial playlist is insane. That’s the screenshot you immediately share with everyone, haha.
But I think the biggest validation actually came during my first headlining theatre show in December 2025. After the show, I went out to the foyer because I wanted to thank everyone for coming and hear what they thought of it.
What I didn’t expect was that people just… stayed. They were talking to each other, sharing stories and connecting with people they had never met before. I remember looking around and realizing that the one thing that had brought all of these strangers into the same room was my music and this show we had created.
That was such a surreal moment. The numbers tell me that the music is travelling and reaching people, which is incredible. But standing in that foyer allowed me to actually see what those numbers can represent.
With “Stuck” dropping on September 25 and a new life in Winnipeg ahead, what do you hope listeners take away from this next era of your music?
I hope they feel invited to come along for the ride. There’s so much about this next era that I don’t know yet, which is probably what excites me most about it. I’m moving to a new country, making more music, playing in places I’ve never been before and meeting people I don’t know yet. There are so many blank pages.
Musically, I want to keep leaning further into storytelling and into the warmth of country music that I love so much. I want the songs to feel honest, romantic, sometimes a little messy and very human. “Stuck” feels like such a natural beginning to that because it doesn’t pretend to know how everything ends either.
If there’s anything I hope people take away from this era, it’s probably the courage to follow the things that make them feel something, even when they don’t know exactly where they’re going. That’s pretty much what I’m doing right now. So I guess we’ll find out together.
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