Grant Lawrence
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Born | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | July 30, 1971
Occupation(s) | media personality, musician, writer |
Instrument(s) | vocalist |
Years active | 1989–present |
Grant Lawrence (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian broadcaster, musician and bestselling author based in Vancouver, primarily associated with CBC Music and CBC Radio 3. Lawrence was also the vocalist for the indie rock group The Smugglers.[1]
Work
In addition to his regular shifts on Radio 3 itself, Lawrence was the host of Radio 3's Saturday night program on the
Lawrence began his association with the CBC in the 1990s, filing stories about life on tour with the Smugglers for David Wisdom's show Night Lines.[1] When Nightlines ended in 1997, Wisdom and Leora Kornfeld, the former host of RealTime, went on to host the new series RadioSonic. Lawrence initially worked for the show as a researcher, and later became a producer, and became host of RadioSonic in 2001 after Wisdom and Kornfeld left the program.[1]
In the summer of 2013, Lawrence and director
Lawrence published his first book, Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, in 2010.[4] A memoir of his visits to the Desolation Sound area of British Columbia, the book was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the 2011 Edna Staebler Award.[5]
Lawrence published his second book, The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie, in 2013. Both books won the BC Book Prize for Book of the Year in their respective years.
His third book, Dirty Windshields: The Best and the Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries, was published in 2017.[6] His fourth book is the children's picture book Bailey the Bat and the Tangled Moose. In 2022, Lawrence published his sequel to his first book, called Return to Solitude, which was a number one bestseller and the highest-selling BC book of that year.
Personal life
He is married to singer-songwriter Jill Barber.[7]
Lawrence co-founded and currently plays hockey for the Vancouver Flying Vees, an amateur hockey team staffed largely by Canadian musicians.[8]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-55022-992-9.
- ^ Mitges, Lynn (June 1, 2006). "More stuff you should know about Grant Lawrence and his podcast". The Province. pp. B3.
- ^ “Watermark,” “My Prairie Home” up for Canadian Screen Awards. Real Screen, January 13, 2014.
- Hour, October 16, 2010.
- ^ "Nominees for Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction announced" Archived January 4, 2013, at archive.today. National Post, September 20, 2011.
- ^ "Review: Grant Lawrence's Dirty Windshields charts rock ’n’ roll fantasies". The Globe and Mail, June 9, 2017.
- BeatRoute. Retrieved April 19, 2010.
- ^ the flying vees Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine