Mary McGuire performs on the Main Stage at the Michigan State Fair

LANSING, Mich. - Aug. 23, 2016 - PRLog -- Mary McGuire has been selected to perform on the Main State at the Fifth Third Bank Michigan State Fair, September 3, 2016. "I am over the moon about being selected. The state fair is one of my favorite Michigan events, from the days of going to the fair with my family and seeing bands like Alice Cooper and Willie Nelson at the old Woodward location to pulling in and seeing how it has evolved now that it is in Novi, well, it's just thrilling." McGuire's most recent achievement, the 2016 Detroit Music Award for Outstanding Americana Singer Songwriter for her 2015 release Love Struck, a collaboration with producer Chuck Alkazian, is a uniquely Detroit infused Americana/Folk Rock album that goes beyond virtuosity. McGuire notched up nominations in the rock, country and indie categories for songwriting as well. Throughout her musical career, which spans over a three decades now, McGuire has moved from Detroit to the east coast and back, absorbing the sounds of the places she's lived infused with stories of the people she has met.

Growing up in Oak Park and Huntington Woods, her love for music came from listening to the Detroit radio stations. At the young age of 11, she was caller 11 on Detroit's hit radio station WDRQ with legendary disc jockey China Jones. At the station on 8 Mile Road in Detroit, the closet doors opened and her arms were loaded up with the entire Beatles discography. Back at home, Mary dropped the needle on side one of Revolver on her blue Panasonic record player and at that the moment she was hooked. Growing up in 70's Detroit and learning from the radio jocks of America's first underground radio stations, WRIF, WABX, WWWW, WDET…was all it took for Mary to pick up the guitar and learn her first Beatles, Neil Young, Eagles and Led Zeppelin tunes. Once she started, her appetite for acoustic rock guitar was fueled.

Loads of guitar lessons, gigging solo and stints in bands with like-minded musicians writing and recording led her to rack up miles on the highways across America. Mary suddenly found her writing songs about where she was, what she saw and what she was doing from her perspective gleaned in the Upper Midwest. Mary found that each place had a different soundtrack that influenced her writing - from the rock influences of industrial Detroit to the gentle folk rock influences from the shores of Martha's Vineyard to the rhythm of the horses clipping along on the car-free streets of Mackinac Island. Absorbing the distinct sound of the people and places where she has lived and letting it all influence her is what defines her characteristic songwriting style.

"One thing that can be said about Ms. McGuire's music is that it is catchy. This is as much a product of its pop undertones as of her distinctive style" ~Samuel Ogden White, Martha's Vineyard Times.

She performs solo on the Michigan State Fair's Main Stage at 11:00 a.m. until noon on Saturday, September 3, 2016 and on the Cultural Stage with her band Ash Can Van Gogh at 9:00 p.m., Thursday, September 1, 2016.  Both performances are included with the price of admission to the fair.

For more about Mary, visit www.marymcguire.com

For the Fifth Third Bank Michigan State Fair, visit www.michiganstatefairllc.com