Mary Anne Message

singer / songwriter / performer.



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Reel You In is the first single off of Mary Anne’s Indie Album which is produced at Evergreen Studio in Calgary, Alberta.

Mary Anne has some heavy hitters on her Album such as Justin Kudding who is an active studio and live player around Western Canada, as well as south of the border in Nashville, Tennessee. He has played bass guitar for a vast group of artists covering a wide array of different musical genres. In doing so, he has also performed alongside some of the most highly respected and in-demand musicians on the planet.

Justin is a current member of the band for Canadian country-music superstar George Canyon, and also works with the following select list of artists, live or in-studio:

GMA Award Winner Mark Schultz, Canadian Country Music stars Tim Hicks, High Valley, Mackenzie Porter, Willie Mack, Jake Mathews and Ryan Laird. Winner of ABC's "The Big Time" Jessica Ridley, Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inducteeRay Griff, Juno & Dove Award Winner Amanda Falk, Juno and WCMA nominee Joanna Borromeo, Steve Archer of 'The Archers', Canadian Idol Finalist Jesse Cottam, and Juno Award Winner Youssou Seck. Justin has also performed with the likes of Madeline Merlo,Livy Jeanne, Drew Gregory, PEAR Band, Katie Love Hess, Ellen Doty, and Michael Larson. A select group of musicians whom Justin has shared the stage with: Chris Rodriguez (Keith Urban, Faith Hill, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins), Boh Cooper (David Foster Band, Rascall Flatts), J.D. Blair (Shania Twain, Victor Wooten), Paul Allen (Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson), Jimmy Herman (Carrie Underwood), Brian Oaks (Lonestar, Tiffany), and Derek Wyatt (Kelly Clarkson, Nick Carter),

Spencer Cheyne who is a Canadian Mixer/Producer/Drummer who’s work has been nominated for multiple Juno, WCMA and CCMA awards.He has worked/played with many notable Canadian artists and musicians, including: Raghav, George Canyon, Paul Brandt, Mackenzie Porter, Chad Brownlee, Joanna Borromeo, Ryan Laird, Lindsay Ell, Transit, Makeshift Innocence, Jetty Road, Trinity Bradshaw, Jocelyn Alice, Raffi, Theo Fleury, Tommy Banks, PJ Perry among many others.

As well as Matty McKay is a producer, bandleader and session/live touring musician playing lead guitar, ?at top acoustic, mandolin, and a seasoned session background vocalist. Matty is on Tour with Brett Kissel, hasplayed guitar live, and recorded with many artists including: Marlee Scott, Lisa Hewitt, Jason Greely, Craig Moritz, Jessie Farrell, Jake Matthews, Jamie Warren, Aaron Pritchett, George Canyon, Patricia Conroy, Duane Steele, Deric Ruttan, Shane Yellowbird, Charlie Major, Jason Blaine, Tebey, Gord Bamford, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, High Valley, Brett Eldredge, Brett Kissel and many others... Matty is an 8 -time Canadian Country Music Association “All Star Band” Nominee. In 2008 McKay was nominated for both the Special Instrument Category for Mandolin, and Guitar.

In 2009 - 2014 Matty was nominated for the Guitar (Guitar Player of TheYear) category and made the ?nal Ballot shortlist for the TOP 5 in Canada.
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.She joined concert band and played the Clarinet and then later years switched to the Bass Clarinet in later years. She also joined Jazz Choir and sang in many public venues.She grew up listening to Classic Rock with her parents and Old Western Tunes with her best friend's parents.

Mary Anne may have lived in a suburb but that didn't stop her from spending time in the sticks and riding her horse. She was Country way before Country was Cool. People used to call her Country Bumpkin.She learned how to play the guitar a little and then learned the Bass Guitar. She learned how to write songs with Ron & Sue Irving.

Mary Anne played in her own band called Deputized as a Bass Player and shared the lead vocals. They started playing at Song Writer's nights at the McBurney coffee house in Langley. From there she started co-writing songs and created a 2nd band Called Glory Daze with Cory Risling. They found out that they both had owned the same horse named Glory, hence the name. She also was in an Oldies Band named Young At Heart as a lead vocalist.

One of Mary Anne’s co-writes with Kane Follis called ‘Kiss Me In the Rain’ was one of 20 song writer winners out of the whole Province of BC.

She took vocal lessons from Althea Di Gregorio and attended the Tom Jackson workshops.From there she met Steve Lindsay and began to be a back up singer for his band Wisdom. Steve then put a Band behind Mary Anne and performed in local bars.In Alberta Mary Anne started meeting people through Karaoke and attending vocal contests as a guest. There she networked and met Mark Troyer the CEO and Producer of Evergreen Sound in Calgary. Mark put together members of Brett Kissel's Band to record Mary Anne's first single.Reel You In is a fun, hopeful song of a daydreaming lover. A little sassy and cute. Mary Anne Message has been writing songs from her life experiences and has been journaling all the joy and anguish which will soon be expressed in her music which you will be able to identify with in one way or another.

She has many more songs and will be releasing an Album hopefully by late 2016 or early 2017.Your support is greatly appreciated. If you like her music then please do share her music.Thank you so very much!

Mary Anne grew up in a small town in Southern BC, Canada.

As a child she used to lipsync to her parents 45's & 80's as well as sing along to songs on her parent's 8 track in the family car.

Her love for music runs deep. You could always find her standing on the fireplace harth singing her head off to a crowd of stuffies lined up in rows on the livingroom couch.