Greetings & Welcome to the Official Smithfield Fair & Charmer Website
39 years and 27 albums of uncommon music*.
Still 'the perfect cafe band'.

Updated: 1/12/12

Contact/Promo

History/Bios

Discography/LYRICS

Books

Reviews

Calendar


 

Smithfield Fair manages to entrance the listener with beautiful melodies, stunning vocal performances and brilliant rhythms. (Adolf Goriup, FolkWorld)



HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!!

All Smithfield Fair/Charmer CD's purchased from this website by mail are $10.00 each, with $2.00 postage and handling on orders of 2 and up, for the time being. Albums currently in stock: Twenty for Twenty, Scotland Fair Scotland, The Longing, Every New Day, Winds of Time, Walking Through This World, Charmer: The Perfect Cafe (music from Smithfield Fair's early years), and Scotland Owns Me.

To purchase, send checks payable to Smithfield Fair to Stevenson Productions, 8323 Justin Avenue, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70809. Also now available is piano music for Jan's Snow Child ($6.00 per copy), The Smithfield Fair Lyric book ($15 per copy), and the books at $5 each: The Reverend McLaurin's Folk ($5), The Green Grove, and A Walk In Wisdom. (For details and song lists for each album or book - check the Discography section here).

There are over 60 Smithfield Fair & Charmer videos on You Tube. Click here to watch & listen.

Tune into Smithfield Fair Radio.

Check 2012 calendar for more information & other dates.










NEW ITEMS, NEWS & OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST (as of 1/12/12):

Smithfield Fair & Charmer music has now been added to KC Cafe Radio, THE place for singer-songwriter-original music.
Tune in and request our music often and enjoy new music by other independent and original artists!

Above is the new store where you can purchase CDs and downloads through our friends at CDBaby.

Transcribed sheet music for Jan Smith's SNOWCHILD from 'Every New Day' is now available!
Send a check for $6.00 made to Smithfield Fair at Stevenson Productions, 8323 Justin Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70809

Also new and now available is "Smithfield Fair Lyrics: From Winds of Time to Every New Day"
Order by $16.00 check payable to Smithfield Fair (address as above)or at all performances.

Smithfield Fair & Charmer are on Facebook.

To watch videos, live clips and slide shows of Smithfield Fair & Charmer, visit our YouTube channel.

Visit our MySpace page.

Check out our Stevenson Productions books on the button at the top of this page.

*Why "uncommon music"? Try explaining Smithfield Fair's music to a stranger.
Music reviewers, critics and industry writers LOVE to compare one music to other known artists.
Can you accurately describe Smithfield Fair's music to anyone else?
Some have called it: 70's-inflected acoustic pop, roots-based acoustic traveling songs, an un-updated Peter, Paul and Mary, and our favorite - a folksy Supertramp.
E-mail us with your suggestions!

Check Discography for more information.


CHARMER
Before Jan, Bob & Dudley-Brian were Smithfield Fair...they were, along with brother Joel Smith, known as CHARMER (1973-1989).
For more information about this name change and exciting part of the group's history, read Smithfield Fair's History/Bios

and listen to Charmer: The Perfect Cafe



Check out a short feature about the Charmer reunion at YouTube.

Check The Perfect Cafe/Discography for more information.


Note: This website is the only official source for information on Smithfield Fair & Charmer.
Every effort is made to make certain all information is correct and up to date.

The following links are helpful and provide essential information as noted.

All Smithfield Fair's guitars are Guilds made in Westerly, Rhode Island, set-up and maintained by Holger Notzel at Riverfront Music here in Baton Rouge.
You can contact Holger at 225-926-1976 or at 1865 Dallas Drive in Baton Rouge; or through Komet Amps.
Yes, they make the amps used by Sonny Landreth, Mark Knopfler, Eddie Van Halen & others.

Lyric Sheets for many Smithfield Fair/Charmer albums are available on-line in the Discography/Lyrics section (button at top of page)for each album.
Simply click the ‘Lyric Sheet’ notation in the album information section.

Hear Smithfield Fair & Charmer releases from Stevenson Productions,as well as purchase discs and downloads from CDBaby
Find those hard to find albums from Southern Fried Filk.

All Smithfield Fair photographs on the main & bio pages (except Charmer) are by T.J. Shuflin

Remember - We love to hear from you. E-mail us anytime.



Webmaster UPDATED ON JANUARY 12th, 2012
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