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BIOGRAPHY
Actually,
Lindsay Smith was never Prom Queen. But, thanks to vigorous campaigning,
she did manage to snag a spot on the Prom Court at the end of
her senior year of high school. Given that she had no popularity,
beauty, or fashion sense to recommend her at the time, she remains
quite proud of this accomplishment and celebrates it with her
second CD release, Were You Prom Queen? Recorded in Atlanta at
Radio Flier Productions with the help of her many friends in the
local scene (see? It’s never too late to be popular), this
CD is a testament to Lindsay’s past songwriting achievements
as well as a taste of what’s yet to come as this self-proclaimed
Prom Queen continues her quest for rock stardom.
Since the 1999 release of her debut CD, Tales From the Fruitbat
Vat, Lindsay Smith has been steadily building a following in Atlanta
and throughout the Southeast with her wit, charm, and engaging
music. Not content to be confined by genre labels, Lindsay has
dubbed her style “alternacheesefolk,” pulling her
inspiration from traditional folk (the “folk”), indie
rock (the “alterna”), and the 80’s pop (the
“cheese”) of her formative years. Lindsay’s
festival appearances include the MWC Multicultural Festival in
Fredericksburg, VA, the Georgia Renaissance Festival, and the
Stitching Stars Storytelling Festival in Athens, GA (she was the
headliner in 2004); the Atlanta venues in which she has performed
include Eddie’s Attic, the Cotton Club, the Red Light Café,
CJ’s Landing, and the 10 High. Her music has been played
on several radio stations, including WRAS (Atlanta, GA), WUNC
(Chapel Hill, NC), and WSGE (Charlotte, NC). In May of 2001 Lindsay
was featured as an “80’s music expert” on NPR’s
All Things Considered. In addition to performing her original
songs, Lindsay has sung with many groups in Atlanta, both classical
and non-classical, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
Lindsay Smith has been making up songs for as long as she can
remember, but she didn’t call herself a songwriter until
she attended the Young Writers Workshop at the University of Virginia
at the age of 13 to work with Charlottesville artists John D’Earth,
Dawn Thompson and Greg Howard. In 1991 she moved to Atlanta, GA
to attend Emory University and began classical voice training
as a music major. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Emory
in 1995, Lindsay acquired a student work visa for France, where
she worked as a paid choral singer. After a year of working and
traveling abroad, she returned to Atlanta to pursue life, love,
songwriting, and other unwieldy goals.
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FAQ
Q:
So, were you Prom Queen?
A: No. However, through vigorous campaigning, I was able to snag
myself a spot on the Prom Court, escorted by Aaron Nicholas.
Q:
Then where does the title Were You Prom Queen? come from?
A: Once, after I’d told my then-boyfriend my plans for the
weekend, he said, “You have a lot of friends. Were you Prom
Queen?” Since a different ex-boyfriend inspired the title
for my first CD, I figured I’d continue in that vein and
start a tradition of naming all of my albums after quotes from
ex-boyfriends.
Q:
Hey, that was my next question! Where does the title Tales From
the Fruitbat Vat come from?
A: Funny you should ask. One of my best friends (later to become
an ex-boyfriend) in college used to call everyone "fruitbat";
he was fond of terms of endearment that were actually insults.
Another close friend of ours went off to Japan to teach English,
and I went to visit her there. All of her friends thought we were
so much alike, but we're really not alike at all; we've just spent
a lot of time together. As she said, "We're kind of like
the Smurfs; we each have our own distinct personality, but we
all dress the same and know all the same songs." Anyway,
when the first friend (remember him? From the beginning? Is this
confusing at all?) called us in Japan, I told him that people
had been telling us we were a lot alike, and he laughed and said,
"They must think there's a vat somewhere where they make
us all." And I said, "Yeah, the fruitbat vat!"
So there you have that.
Q:
Is that you on the cover of Tales From the Fruitbat Vat?
A: No. Her name is Emi, and she lives in Japan.
Q: Is
that you on the cover of Were You Prom Queen?
A: Yes. That picture was taken when I was about 5 years old.
Q:
So, what is “alternacheesefolk,” anyway?
A: “Alternacheesefolk” is the inevitable result of
being raised by a mother who sang, almost continuously, Joan Baez
versions of traditional folk songs, discovering pop music at the
height of 80’s fashion and MTV and deciding to be Cyndi
Lauper when I grew up, and then falling in love with all those
cute boys with faded t-shirts and floppy hair in college who collected
indie bands on vinyl and actually knew all the names of all the
members of all the bands, plus which other bands they’d
been in. It doesn’t take much for me to fall in love with
music, or musicians. Give me time: in a few more years, it’ll
be “alternacheesenext-big-thing-I-fall-forfolk.”
CONTACT
Please
send mail correspondence to:
Lindsay Smith
PO Box 7004
Atlanta, GA 30357
For interviews, additional photos, or additional information,
please e-mail: press@lindsay-smith.com
For booking information, please e-mail: booking@lindsay-smith.com
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