Megan Bee

short bio:

Singer-songwriter Megan Bee writes with an unquenchable wanderlust and a deep love for the land.  Her album "Cottonwood" has been called "as real as it gets" and was listed in the best of 2022 by Americana UK and No Depression Magazine. Her music is a blend of distinctly homespun vocals, acoustic simplicity, yearning soulfulness, and winsome storytelling. Her background as an environmental educator, farmhand, and vagabond once took her into a desert wilderness where she found her voice around a campfire.  She bases in the rolling hills of Athens, Ohio and draws influence from the collision of Appalachian folk and modern songwriting.

extended bio:

Singer-songwriter Megan Bee writes with an unquenchable wanderlust and a deep love for the land.  Her 2022 album "Cottonwood" has been called "as real as it gets – a raw and real telling of engaging, relatable stories." It was listed in the best of 2022 by Americana UK and No Depression Magazine and received mentions from American Songwriter and IAMA.

Her previous album "Waiting" (2020) earned The Ark of Music album of the year award.   Past albums have garnered The Ohio Music Awards Best Americana and Best Singer-Songwriter Albums, and a finalist spot in the USA Songwriting Competition. 

Her music is a blend of distinctly homespun vocals, acoustic simplicity, yearning soulfulness, and winsome storytelling.  She weaves imagery and metaphor from nature into her lyrics.  Her background as an environmental educator, traveling farmhand, and vagabond once took her into a desert wilderness where she found her voice around a campfire.  Her live shows are an intimate sharing of personal experiences, observations, stories from the road, nature facts, and light-hearted humor.   

She bases out of the rolling hills of Athens, Ohio and draws influence from the collision of Appalachian folk and modern songwriting.  You can feel the presence of the foothills in her music yet her tendency to wander casts a wistful and adventurous color over the concept of “home”.  

Over the past ten years she has released four full length albums and toured relentlessly.  From coffeeshops, house concerts, festivals, and theaters she has roamed the country in her Dodge minivan sharing her simple songs.  In 2022 she founded Words In The Hills LLC, a writing retreat in Southeast Ohio.  The retreat welcomes creative writers of all genres to gather in a summer camp setting to take workshops, connect with other writers, and be inspired by the natural beauty of the region.  https://wordsinthehills.com

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"No one has a greater sense of place than Bee...14 superb vignettes sung in an unforgettable quiver of a voice." No Depression

"A singularly, naturally beautiful album...Thinking of buying just one Americana album this year?  This should be on your short list.  At the top."  Americana UK

“Good imagery & metaphors married smartly to contemplative songs laid out in an inspired storytelling manner…Not a bad song here.” Americana Highways

“With no bombast, she puts across heartfelt tunes about themes of great strum and drang that somehow float above it all. There's just something magical about this folkie that insures you'll be ensnared right from the start. She plays the kind of stuff you knew was out there and refused to give up looking for. “
Midwest Record

"This album is a fine example of Bee’s writing style, emotive vocals, and penchant for minimalistic production values.  Indeed, it is these very elements that aid her in joining together various subjects and themes to effectively present an album based on her personal experiences, imaginative, intimate observations, and sometimes humorous introspective revelations." 
HVY

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