Emily Smith

Vocalist/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and interpreter of traditional music Emily Smith is among the leading figures within the modern Scottish folk picture. Created in Dumfries and Galloway, Smith spent her early years as a child carrying out at her mother’s dance college, but created a like of music after taking on the piano, snare drum, and accordion. After finding her vocal capabilities in the institution choir, she shifted to Glasgow, where she gained an honors level in Scottish music in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2002, she earned BBC Radio Scotland’s Adolescent Traditional Music of the entire year honor and released her debut recording, EACH DAY Like Today, that was followed by ANOTHER Life (2005), TOO MUCH TIME Away (2008), and Adoon Winding Nith (2009), a cooperation with New Zealand musician and spouse Jamie McClennan, released to celebrate the 250th wedding anniversary of the delivery of bard Robert Melts away. Following mainstream publicity on BBC’s Tracks of Compliment and Hogmanay Live, she released her most high-profile recording, Traveller’s Pleasure, in 2011.