Music Style acoustic pop/rock/folk/country

Artist History Meghan Cary is the teller of many stories, and the most beautiful of them all is her very own. The Duke-educated singer/songwriter has steadily won over the hearts of audiences from New York City to Austin, Texas, with her thoughtful, introspective musical tapestries, beautifully woven with sentiments of life, love, and loss. Cary's music always falls within the range of euphoria to sadness, but her compositions, spun in a fresh, well-crafted blend of pop, rock, folk and country, are bound by a single thread: they're all undeniably straight from the heart. ------For her part, Cary is all too familiar with the often-harsh realities of this world. She began making music in 1993 with Matthew Black, a man she met while performing a play in Maryland. The two played gigs throughout the northeast, Matthew on an old Martin guitar, Meghan singing the harmonies with an occasional lead. They also fell in love and became engaged. Cary felt she was traveling toward her childhood fantasy of a life making music, but the journey ended painfully and abruptly with Matthew's unexpected death less than two years later. -----"When Matti died, I lost my best friend and soul mate," says Cary. "But I knew he wouldn't want me to give up the dream. I wrote music because it was the only way I found to survive the greatest loss in my life. I picked up Matthew's Martin and started playing because it was the only way I knew to keep the dream alive." -----Cary found refuge and solace in songwriting, and the results can be heard on her AngelBear Records debut, New Shoes, that Billboard, in awarding it a Critic's Choice tag, called "reminiscent of the initial efforts of Shawn Colvin and the Indigo Girls." ASCAP selected Cary's title track for their East Coast Pop workshop immediately after its release in May of 1998. The artist has since become a mainstay at New York City clubs like The Bitter End, CBGB's 313 Gallery, the Living Room, and Downtime, where her growing number of followers have seen Cary in what is her true element, the stage. -----"Making music started for me on the back porch. So when I get onstage, thats what I'm striving for - that same intimacy, that same connection with the audience. My music has always come to life in the listening of it. It doesn't mean much until it touches someone who maybe really needed access to something in their own life that was weighing them down, but they weren't able to unbury until they put themselves in front of one of my songs. Sometimes music is a way for me to express things that are just too big for words. And sometimes its just a whole lot of fun that I have with a bunch of my friends. My audience is incredible. They bring so much love and joy and expectation into the room that its impossible not to give back every bit of myself. What will it be like to sing in Madison Square Garden where I can‚t look into each listeners eyes? I guess thats when I'll just have to find them in my mind. Use all my acting skills to put myself back on that porch." -----Cary's musical talents have also been showcased on the live CD Catfish Dinner, a benefit project recorded in Archer City, Texas to support the rebuilding of the historic Royal Theatre, a landmark featured in the Academy Award-winning film, "The Last Picture Show ". -----Cary, born in Hershey, Pennsylvania, studied mathematics and chemistry while at Duke in hopes of becoming a doctor, but her creative passions couldn't be denied. She did an about-face while in school, ultimately earning a B.A. in theater before going on to obtain an M.F.A. in acting at Florida State University's Asolo Conservatory. She's subsequently performed in more than 50 plays and musicals throughout the United States and Europe while simultaneously working in film, television and radio. Her projects include the comedy hit "In and Out", starring Kevin Kline, and "The Devil's Advocate", with Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. -----"Through all the twists and turns I‚ve made in my life, music has followed me. Now I‚ve finally turned to face it head on, and life is a completely different beast. All I have to ask of it is: 'Wanna come out and play?'‚"

Press Reviews "Can the world stand one more sensitive, storytelling troubadour? If the artist in question is Meghan Cary, the answer is a resounding YES." -Billboard Magazine, August 1998

Location New York, NY - USA

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