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LIFE & TIMES
1975 - 2018
Gavin Mee was a Dublin-born Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and storyteller in the great troubadour tradition, drawing comparisons to luminaries such as John Martyn, Nick Drake, and Randy Newman.
Teaching himself guitar from the age of nine, Gavin's restless creative spirit led him away from an early career in business and toward the life he was born to live. Armed with his acoustic guitar and an adventurer's spirit, he spent years roaming basement cafes and taverns across Europe, forging lifelong friendships and gathering the rich material that would define his art.
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Gavin's debut album, Breech Birth (2006), released on his own independent label, captured the wit and wanderlust of those years in intricate and playful tales from the road.
His travels expanded to the United States, where he completed several successful circuits of the coffeehouses and music bars of the upper midwest and the American west in the 2010's, drinking in the landscapes and characters that both intrigued and bemused him. Those experiences found their fullest expression on his second album, Mee Mantras (2014), which introduced a larger and more urgent sound, backed by a talented cadre of musicians and produced by his close friend and collaborator Duncan Maitland of Picturehouse and Pugwash.
Whether performing his celebrated "out of town chords" to appreciative audiences in Nashville, Norwich or Nice, Gavin Mee brought something rare and irreplaceable to every stage he graced — his soulful voice and dazzling guitar playing, his onstage wit and warmth, and a rich harvest of stories to tell.
Read more about Gavin's life in the Guardian.
Albums
Two studio albums. Each one a world.
Breech Birth, 2006
Mee Mantras, 2014
Videos & Performances