It's been a wild ride for Leah Daniels, from learning to yodel from her grandfather at his Uxbridge farm to playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, to sharing the stage with some of country music's biggest names.
That ride brings Daniels to London for 2016's Country Music Week which goes Sept. 8-11. Daniels is Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Awards nominees in the interactive artist category. She will be among hundreds of other performers and music industry professionals who will throng to the Forest City next week.She is to be with many of them on the John Deere green carpet leading to the Sept. 11 CCMA Awards show at Budweiser Gardens.
"I grew up on a farm listening to country music, so it isn't something that is foreign to me, but it's funny the way that this is happening," Daniels told Postmedia News recently.
Daniels is expected to be part of the CCMA event's tribute to The Tragically Hip set for the night of Sept. 9 at the Fanshawe College and Downtown London stage on a closed section of Talbot Street. Details are still TBA.
Daniels was among countless Canadian on social media who shared their emotions about the Kingston rock band's Aug. 20 hometown concert.
Her social media touch made the news this week when she was among the first to tweet a salute to London for being named as host city for the 2017's Country Music Association of Ontario (CMAO) awards show. Daniels won the 2016 CMAO female artist of the year category this spring.
She just keeps going. Daniels' recent single Your Kiss Is Killing Me blends her love of both modern and traditional country with some pop.
Daniels began her musical career studying musical theatre in college and performing in a number of musical productions. Then, singers like Shania Twain and Sarah McLachlan inspired Daniels to begin to pen her own work.
When she looked at the stories that she was telling, she started seeing herself going country.
One of the things that has steered Daniels' career to blossom is co-writing and collaborating with other songwriters.
"I started writing with other people and that was a big thing because I always wrote by myself, but my friend Sam Ellis, who produced my first album, suggested it," said Daniels.
Daniels also had a CMAO songwriting nod for co-writing Dream Without You along with Aylmer-tied Beverley Mahood and Patricia Conroy, a Canadian based at Nashville.
Working as hard as Daniels does as an independent artist sometimes makes her feel that she is working in a bubble, not really sure if she is making an impact.
When Daniels was a girl, she didn't see that there would be all of this work, the writing, producing, back and forth with e-mails.
Win or not at the CCMA Awards show, the Daniels ride continues in September.
Later in the month, Daniels will be in Toronto at the Phoenix Concert Theatre on Sept. 22 as part of the Canada's Walk of Fame festival.
What: Selected details about the CCMA's 2016 Country Music Week.
Where: Venues around London, including a section of Talbot Street between Dundas and King streets which is closed as of Tuesday and the fest's duration.
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