Mary 5e plays personal, dark-edged Hard rock and acoustic rock songs with memorable melodies and exquisite harmonies. Born in Barrie and raised in Owen Sound, Mary spent her summers in Tobermory (Ontario). Once Mary heard Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill in the summer of 1995 she knew she had to become a performer, so she borrowed a guitar and learned her first song — Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven.”
The following summer she returned with her own guitar and a pocketful of original songs to play her first gig, at Shipwreck Lee’s on the corner. “If you’ve been to Tobermory,” she explains, “you know that there are just two corners. I played on the right-hand corner.”