{"id":100,"date":"2013-07-23T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missybauman.com\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2021-05-19T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:14:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/missybauman.com\/?page_id=100","title":{"rendered":"biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_50f4\">\n<div id=\"id_56e94d2ded87f2572186650\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Described by Rrampt Magazine as \u201c&#8230;an exploration of the ethereal\u201d, Missy Bauman creates folk music with fangs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though accompanied often by an acoustic guitar, Bauman\u2019s music is more \u201canti-folk\u201d than traditional &#8211; with lyrics that may catch you off-guard with intensity, vulnerability, the occasional blush-worthy remark, and deeply personal truths. What keeps Missy\u2019s music \u201cfolk\u201d is the value she places on the simplicity of good songwriting &#8211; bravery, an acoustic guitar, and honest storytelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally hailing from Brantford, Ontario, Bauman was discovered by a local festival director at a highschool coffee house, who described her as \u201c&#8230;a true artist, fiercely committed to her writing, singing, and playing\u201d. As if accidentally, she entered the music scene at 17, sharing stages with Emmy-Lou Harris, Gord Downie, and Feist. After winning two Hamilton Music Awards, she abandoned her bachelor degree dreams, and left to study music in Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fans of Hannah Georgas, Dan Mangan, and Big Theif will find a new favourite artist in Bauman, making space for uncomfortable feminism in the singer-songwriter genre, with decided gentleness and vulnerability. \u201cTwo Sisters\u201d, which appears on her sophomore album \u2018Sweet\u2019 (2020), won a Songs from the Heart award presented by Folk Music Ontario, was a Folk Category finalist in the International John Lennon Songwriting Competition, and received a nomination for the Slaight Emerging Artist Award from the Canadian Songwriter Hall of Fame.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_50f4\">\n<div id=\"id_56e94d2ded87f2572186650\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Described by Rrampt Magazine as \u201c&#8230;an exploration of the ethereal\u201d, Missy Bauman creates folk music with fangs.\u00a0 Though accompanied often by an acoustic guitar, Bauman\u2019s music is more \u201canti-folk\u201d than traditional &#8211; with lyrics that may catch you off-guard with intensity, vulnerability, the occasional blush-worthy remark, and deeply personal truths. What keeps Missy\u2019s music \u201cfolk\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missybauman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missybauman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missybauman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missybauman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missybauman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/missybauman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/missybauman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missybauman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}