As a child growing up in Henley Megan was exposed to music at an early age watching her mother sing at nearby Nettlebed Folk Club and she developed an ear for a tune while listening at home to the likes of Abba and Queen. As she grew older she found inspiration from the songs of Bill Withers, Tracy Chapman, Bob Dylan, Anais Mitchell, Ralph McTell and Joan Armatrading, among others.
Her first known appearance was on the Kenton Theatre stage at the Henley Festival where she performed one of her own songs at the tender age of 9! As a teenager her songwriting skills continued to develop and she formed her own band "Megan and the Boys‟ honing her craft on the local live circuit. At eighteen she spent six months travelling where she paid her way playing guitar and singing to crowds in Venice, Thailand, India and Malaysia. It was during this time she fell in love with the people of Nepal and has since returned to Kathmandu twice to record with leading Nepalese musicians Nirmal Kulu, Binod Katal and Shyram Saram Nepali. Profits from her first single release were sent back to the charity "Child Action Nepal‟ to help the orphans of Kathmandu. Back in the UK, between songwriting and performing Megan regularly contributes to music therapy sessions for people with learning difficulties.
These experiences have had a profound effect on her songwriting. Her powerful, poignant and often witty lyrics are woven around wonderful timeless pop melodies and demonstrate a depth and maturity far beyond her 21 years.
Megan and her brother Joe, 16, (a hugely talented sax player) won this year‟s BBC RADIO 2 Young Folk Award beating off strong competition in the final at Queen Elizabeth Hall on London‟s Southbank, just before her 21st birthday.
Megan has since begun work on her forthcoming debut album, “Making Waves”. From these early recordings the new single is taken; two wonderfully crafted songs featuring Peter Knight (Steeleye Span) on fiddle, Barriemore Barlow (Jethro Tull) on drums and Mollie Marriott (daughter of Steve) on BV‟s. Her vocal coach, the great Sam Brown also plays ukulele:
“What Elliott Said” and “Shape & Colour”.
The first single is available now at iTunes and good download stores, through Redemption Records. Megan's hectic summer festival schedule included CROPREDY, THE CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL, TOWERSEY VILLAGE FESTIVAL, WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL, SIDMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL, plus more shows to be announced (see gig section for updates).
FOR INFO PLEASE CONTACT PHIL KNOX-ROBERTS
phil@redemption-records.com – 0207 384 0938 - 07866 626946
Thank you for adding me. I really appreciate you joining me on my author page. My fiction novel with a CD soundtrack is due out in a few weeks. It will be at CD Baby, Amazon, Barnes & Nobels etc. Keep in touch.
I hope to see you in just under a fortnight in Balham. Although I'm from far away North London, I know The Bedford because I used to attend Lindy Hop/Swing Dance classes there.
Hi! Thanks so much for the add! My debut album 'Your Every Colour' is out now and available to buy from: Itunes USA, Itunes Australia/New Zealand, Itunes Canada, Itunes UK/Europe, Itunes Japan, Rhapsody, Napster, E-music, IMVU, Amazon MP3, Lala, Shockhound, Amie street and LimeWire store.
Ive just recorded a new song called ‘Barriers’ and also a new version of ‘Reverse Gravity’ – would love to know what you think??..........im new to this so need all the support i can get!!
Hi Megan, don't forget to sign up to wohomusic so we can listen to your tracks on there. We're a MUSIC ONLY networking site so it's full of people who'd be interested in finding out more about you! Look forward to seeing you on there soon, it's a really great community and best of all we are not a faceless organisation - if you want to meet us you will!
Wow! I'm knocked out! Making waves? You said it said it sister! Our family used to knock about down down your neck of the woods. I see you've got Nick's band in your top friends. My bro played guitar with them at a gig in Bristol just the other day. More power to your elbow....and thanks
