MEGGIE GEORGE/MEGHANN SMITH CREATES
Creative Fool (aka artist) and Vaguely Amused Productions
In 2019, I was invited to come and film a three day rehearsal/workshop/ concert project called Frauenorchesterproject (FOP). Photo credit: Katie Cortez Since 2007 this project takes place once a year. Women from all over Germany get together for a weekend of rehearsal to work on music by women composers (with Conductor Mary Ellen Kitchens) [...]
For the past two years I have had the great pleasure of working with the ARCHIV FRAU UND MUSIK – INTERNATIONALE FORSCHUNGSSTÄTTEIN FRANKFURT AM MAIN (ARCHIVE OF WOMEN IN MUSICINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTERIN FRANKFURT/MAIN, GERMANY). I filmed, engineered the sound and cut together 8 interviews of woman from the music world: composers, musicologists, historians, etc for their [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCfnn5WU4YI&feature=youtu.be I recently "stumbled" into a collaboration with Garth Bardsley, Gregory Wanamaker and Donald George ( who happens to be my father and the reason for the collab). Garth Bardsley is a poet who had written a poem about attending a funeral in these times of Covid-19. Gregory Wanamaker is a composer who put this [...]
My good friend and beautiful artist Sanna Myrttinen and I have been wanting to create together. She recently had an art show in Munich and so we decided this would be the perfect moment to try some things out. She had an inspiration about something she wanted and so we combined our heads, hearts and [...]
Hi All, it has been a while, but I have a few songs I am working on and releasing, starting with this one, here. This is an older, but never released, song: Oh, CO2 I have held onto this song for more than a year. I wrote it for a gig, recorded it and then [...]
Hi All, I have been spending a lot of time involved in a project recently, where the issue of proper licensing has been a big topic - and I realized that I made a licensing mistake in the previous upload. So, I have taken the other video down and re-uploaded it in order to have [...]
Hi All,I'm just sending around a little update about what I've been up to these past few weeks.Two weeks ago I had a very impromptu trip to Nürnberg in order to film and record the pianist Uta Walther playing in her living room. It was a project brought to life through the Archiv Frau und [...]
I have a new video up and a new category: Ukulele Songs about Real Things This first song is a song called “Where is Away?” It is a love song to the Oceans and a sad song about plastic pollution in those oceans (I know plastic pollution isn’t the only issue – but I don’t […]
22 June, 2018 at 19:30 in Starnberg, Orlandosaal (free entry) – my first gig since taking a break from music (about a year). I am singing new songs, old songs, old songs with a new twist, songs I haven’t quite written yet… If you are in the area, feel free to pop by. The address […]