Meg Baird

Genres:	Pop / Rock
Decades Active:	2000s
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Biography

Margaret Baird, Philadelphia, USA. This talented purveyor of timeless retro folk rose to fame as part of the 2002-formed Philadelphian psych-folk collective, Espers. Prior to Baird's involvement in this Greg Weeks fronted project, she learnt her trade performing Appalachian music with her elder sibling Laura under the Baird Sisters moniker. At the age of 19, Laura took her to see North Carolina-born folk song enthusiast and novelist Sheila Kay Adams, and this was a defining moment in the development of her appreciation of music. The Baird Sisters' rough demos, as recorded by their father Thomas in January 2003, were self-released, complete with handmade sleeve on the hard-to-find, At Home. Merely a year later her haunting lead vocal could be heard on the delicate "Flowery Noontide', the opening track of Espers' 2004 self-titled debut. A covers EP, 2005"s The Weed Tree followed, as did a second album, and Baird's integral contribution to each of these releases paved...

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