Tue, Oct 20th, 7-9pm, Concert – Smith & Devoin - Real Roots Rock ! - Roots Jazz Blues Country
Andrea Smith was born and raised in BC’s Kamloops/Shuswap area. This cowgirl and wanderer has had a few careers as a certified guide outfitter and farrier, a registered massage therapist and a music teacher. She received her music degree in 2011and has produced three albums of original music. Andrea has received a total of eight Vancouver Island Music Award nominations. In 2007 she won Female Songwriter of the year and her album “Sweet Embrace” took home Producer and Engineer of the year. In 2014 her album “Transition” received two nominations (rock song and country song of the year) and her music video “Moonlight Shine” was nominated for video of the year. In 2005 Andrea won first place in the Songwriting Category at the Shuswap International Writers Festival. She has been fortunate in sharing the stage with some of Canada’s great jazz musicians including Don Thompson and Phil Dwyer. Her songwriting crosses many genre’s with rock, blues, jazz and country roots having a strong presence in her songwriting and choice of cover songs. Her music is available on iTunes and links from her website www.andreasmith.ca 
https://www.reverbnation.com/andreasmithband   https://soundcloud.com/songsmith63
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4gAu0h1VA   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyn6XAHm9r8
Marisha Devoin has been performing with Andrea for the last 10 years! (Can you believe it?!) Since graduating from Vancouver Island University's Ba. Music program Marisha has performed in pit bands for musical productions with Chemainus Theatre, Arts Club Theatre & Patrick Street Productions (Vancouver), as well as cruise ship orchestras and cabaret bands. She works as a session musician, and educator in her burgeoning Nanaimo studio, and can be heard playing jazz, R&B, bluegrass (Hub City Ramblers), and prog rock (Eleanore) around the west coast.  Check out her boring and rarely updated website www.marisha.ca  (note sarcasm)
Tickets @ Door $15 Advance $12 on sale now up until 1 hour before concert @ Char’s Landing or call (778) 421-2427 to purchase with Visa/MC/Amex/Debit
FMI http://alberni.ca/events/15657   Char’s 19+ Lounge opens M-F 4pm, S-S 1pm www.charslanding.com Char’s Landing, 4815 Argyle @5th. Port Alberni V9Y 1V9
ANDREA SMITH BIO
“Smith has a fine expressive voice, can write solid, accessible material and has surrounded herself with great players from Miles Black and Phil Dwyer to producer/guitarist Pat Coleman. Radio will go nuts trying to categorize her but this is good stuff.”
 John P. McLaughlin /The Province
 
Andrea Smith was born and raised in BC’s Kamloops/Shuswap area. This cowgirl and wanderer has had a few careers as a certified guide outfitter and farrier, a registered massage therapist and a music teacher. She received her music degree in 2011and has produced three albums of original music. Andrea has received a total of eight Vancouver Island Music Award nominations. In 2007 she won Female Songwriter of the year. Her album “Sweet Embrace” also took home Producer (Pat Coleman) and Engineer (Rick Salt) of the year. In 2014 her album “Transition” received two nominations and her music video “Moonlight Shine” was nominated for video of the year. In 2005 Andrea won first place in the Songwriting Category at the Shuswap International Writers Festival. She has been fortunate in sharing the stage with some of Canada’s great jazz musicians including Don Thompson and Phil Dwyer. She is not entirely a jazz musician though. Her rock, blues and country roots have a strong presence in her songwriting and choice of cover songs.
 
Andrea’s music crosses many genres. Here’s a guide to navigate through the back roads and highways of “Sweet Embrace”:
 
The title track Sweet Embrace and Monashee Breeze are upbeat country roots rock, Coolest Guy is a softer sweeter version of the same. This Time, Weary and Breathing are strongly rooted in the blues. Thrift Store Coat and Earl, while both jazz, one is of longing and the other a declaration of love. Closest Thing to Maybe is a breezy summery Latin jazz based dancing in your car seat kinda piece. Tracks of Life is a rock influenced soft pop piece, I Don’t Wanna Wait is soft pop with soul/blues and God Said is a beautifully composed and vocally orchestrated song of hope. White Machine changes gears again and brings us back to earth with an urban roots rock groove. Sweet Embrace, originally released in 2006 was nominated for five VIMA’s and took home Songwriter Of The Year and Producer/Engineer of the year. It was re-mastered and re-released in August 2014 with a bonus track.
 
Andrea’s third and latest album “Transition” also stirs up the genre pool. It was released in 2013 and nominated for three VIMAs:
 
Black Moods is country with a zydeco feel, Been Too Long is a catchy guitar riff roots piece. Insomniac Baby is a driving blues song and Wrong is blues with a twist. Tell Me Why is a grooving R&B pop tune. What You’re Not,  featuring a funkified guitar solo, is grooving rock pop, as is Loosely which tells the story of characters met while working at a liquor store. It features bari sax and is reminiscent of Rikki Lee Jones-style writing. Busy Being in Love is an R&B jazz earworm. Sunny Girl is jazz featuring a trance-like bass line. Meant For Me sounds like a standard jazz piece. Moonlight Shine is a lovely R&B soft pop song and Love Survive questions long distance love in the AC soft pop style.
 
http://www.andreasmith.ca