With a poet's ease, Meg Hutchinson makes the personal universal by going beyond casual observation and exploring the emotion behind the events, allowing people's stories to come alive through her sweet, earthy vocals and haunting melodies. A national and international award-wining songwriter who artfully documents the human condition, Hutchinson is indeed one of the great voices of the next generation of acoustic musicians.

After graduating from college with a degree in creative writing, Hutchinson quit her longtime job on an organic lettuce farm and settled in Boston. In between gigs at pubs, coffeehouses, and train stations, she won a Kerrville New Folk Award (2000) and was nominated for a Boston Music Award for her first studio album Against the Gray. She went on to win awards at the Rocky Mountain Folk Fest, the Telluride Troubador Songwriter's Showcase, and The Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at Merlefest, all in the course of a year. Her 2008 Come Up Full album appeared on many “best of the year” lists. She was an audience favorite at South by Southwest, and Folk Alliance. In the fall of 2009 she toured extensively with fellow songwriters Antje Duvekot, Anne Heaton, and Natalia Zukerman. Her new album, The Living Side, showcases her most powerful songwriting to date; she paints a picture of America today—apple orchards, trailer parks, factory towns—but goes beyond the places and events by showing us how these affect our everyday lives, and and how we feel in this time of fast and frightening change.