For singer-songwriter Meaghan Smith, the glamour of being signed to a major label and life on the road faded. Stepping away from music to start a family and focus on health, Smith missed the connection with her music and fans. Today she is back doing the music industry her own way with her Our Song […]
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Meaghan Smith is a Winner
The other day we got ahold of Meaghan Smith to talk about what it feels like to win a Juno. The “New Artist of the Year” was in Halifax at the Carleton doing some press about the win before heading out to play a couple of shows in Quebec. Smith is a genuinely delightful person. A week later, she’s still blown away by the win, but also happy, proud and ready to work. In a climate where, to poorly paraphrase Yeats, many musicians either lack conviction or are filled with passionate (fake) intensity, she is a breath of fresh
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Meaghan Smith and Old Man Luedecke Win Junos
This past weekend Meaghan Smith and Old Man Luedecke both took home Juno awards. Smith took home Best New Artist, while Luedecke won Roots and Traditional album of the year for My Hands Are On Fire and Other Love Songs. GREAT JOB.
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Ghettosocks Nominated for a Juno
Ghettosocks‘ album Treat of the Day has been nominated in the “Rap Recording of the Year’ category alongside some pretty estimable artists, including Shad, D-cisive, Drake and Eternia & MoSS. Also, Meaghan Smith was nominated for New Artist of the Year, Classified got a Song of the Year nod for “Oh Canada” and Old Man […]
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Amelia Curran and Meaghan Smith make Polaris longlist
Amelia Curran These two fantastic singer-songwriters can start dreaming about how to spend a giant bag of cash. Amelia Curran‘s Hunter Hunter and Meaghan Smith‘s The Cricket’s Orchestra impressed critics enough to get them nominated to the long list for the Polaris Prize. And that ain’t no easy task: as a juror, I’m on the […]
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Smitten with Smith
When Meaghan Smith performed her first song for an audience while in animation school, she had a one-person “crowd.” “My roommate came in, and I had to make her face the other wall, and me face the other way, and she had to just not ever turn around,” remembers Smith, a big smile on her […]
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Meaghan Smith to play Lilith Fair
Check it! Crush-worthy Meaghan Smith is playing prestigious lady festival Lilith Fair, making a return in 2010 since the last Lilith Fair tour in 1999. This means Smith will have the chance to rub shoulders with artists such as Emmylou Harris, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige and a ton more. Give her all the love […]
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Kev Corbett gives a sneak peek at his new album
Don’t drop it! Kev Corbett’s new album, Son of a Rudderless Boat, was released informally at the Lunenburg Folk Fest on August 6, but if you weren’t one of the 1000 people present, you may be chomping at the bit to get your copy. Corbett is leaking the album “through Taz, CKDU, and outta-the-guitar case sales,” he says, before the official release sometime in late September, so you can get one now and feel like a super fan singing along at the release show. The album features cameo appearances from Old Man Luedecke, Don Brownrigg, Thom Swift, Christina Martin, Meaghan
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Meaghan Smith shines on (500) Days of Summer soundtrack
Haligonian singer/songwriter Meaghan Smith could quite possibly be one of the main reasons not to punch (500) Days of Summer in the face. Smith’s cover of The Pixies’ “Here Comes Your Man” is featured on the soundtrack, available here. You can see trailer above and possibly agree with me about wanting to give the film […]