Take Me There: Catching Up With Brooklin’s Lindsay Broughton
Lindsay Broughton is a homegrown Ontario girl looking to make her mark in country music. And if the starlet from Brooklin stays on the path she’s on right now, she will.
With the 2013 Country Music Association Rising Star Award already on her mantel, the young singer/songwriter has 2 more nominations in 2015 for Album of the Year and Video of the Year.
On the strength of her album, Take Me There (released November 2014), Lindsay’s star has only grown and her name and music have reached more and more people in the country music community.
What all started with a field trip to Nashville, continues today, with more trips to the Country Music Capital of the World to write more music to record for her fans.
We caught up with Lindsay on the phone to talk about the upcoming CMAOs, new music, the country music community and more, thanks to a couple tweets.
Check it out…
Fan Question #1: What is your favourite/the best concert you’ve seen?
Lindsay made a good point about our first concerts always holding a special place in our hearts (like a first love maybe?) – and then she let spill that her first concert, that special one in her heart, was Britney Spears on the Baby One More Time Tour.
She followed up though by telling us that more recently, her fav concert experience took place in Michigan where she saw 2015 Boots & Hearts headliner, Eric Church take the stage. In Lindsay’s words, “it’s like a country concert and a rock concert at the same time”. If we weren’t already excited enough to see Mr. Church this August, we are now.
Fan Question #2: Can you make a choice for Female Artist of the Year at the Country Music Association of Ontario Awards?
Now, we don’t fault Lindsay one little bit for this, but she did kinda dodge this question. She was sweet and fair in saying that all of the women nominated (Genevieve Fisher, Kira Isabella, Brea Lawrenson, Beverley Mahood, Tianna Woods, Michelle Wright) have a really strong chance to have their name called at the CMAOs and they all had a great 2014.
She may not have made a choice, but we’ll let it slide!
And now onto some questions from us…
Q. How excited are you for your nominations?
Lindsay told us that she was in Nashville when she found out about her nominations, so she was already in a pretty excited state. And in fact, she was in a writing session with Jason Blaine, so they both found out about their nominations at the same time – and that they were competing against each other for Music Video of the Year.
To hear her speak about the nominations was a lot of fun. It was easy to hear the excitement in her voice. Something that can’t be manufactured – and that just makes us want to root for her even more.
Q. What role has community played for you, and what is the sense of community like in Country Music?
We kind of stumped Lindsay at first with this one. We’ll admit that it’s probably not the most common question in the world – but we went with it anyway!
“Community is the base of country music”, Lindsay told us. She spoke about her early career and the support that she got locally from people asking to buy her music, or when and where they could see her perform. She gave a shout out to nearby KX96 who have always been good to her and played her music for the fans to hear. And she told us that her old high school still plays her songs each fall when the new students arrive. She acknowledges that the support at home is a huge part of her being where she is now in her career, and it’s clear to see that she’s thankful for it.
On the industry side Lindsay told us that “everybody is friends with everybody” and that the CMAOs will be kind of like a family reunion with artists coming together to congratulate each other and catch up on what’s been going on in their lives.
Lindsay also told us that, on a personal level, it’s cool to be able to call these other very talented artists, her friends – and to be able to pick up the phone and call them when she hears a new single on the radio.
Q. What’s coming up this summer?
As she told us earlier, there’s been some writing going on in Nashville… and with a quick burst of excitement, she told us that she’s pretty sure she has her next single – which means she has to get back in the studio to record and release this summer.
Lindsay will also be playing shows at US Army bases for the first time this summer, including her first show at Colorado Springs where she’s been told the crowd could be as big as 45,000.
Q. What would it mean to win Album of the Year or Video of the Year at the 2015 Country Music Association of Ontario Awards?
As humbly as you may expect, we heard again that it’s an honour to be nominated, and it would be an honour to win. Lindsay shared that it’s “always a nice feeling to be recognized” and that a win in either category would be “another piece of acceptance in the musical community”.
If you haven’t seen Lindsay’s Video of the Year Award submission: Take Me There, check the bottom of the post. And if you haven’t bought the Take Me There album yet, click on the iTunes link.
Thanks a ton to Lindsay for taking the time to chat – we can’t wait to hang out on May 25th at the CMAO Awards.
Find Lindsay Broughton online at these fine locations…
Website: www.lindsaybroughton.com
Facebook: Lindsay Broughton
Twitter: @lindsbroughton
YouTube: Lindsay Broughton
iTunes: Lindsay Broughton
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