JAN SMITH – Jan is Smithfield Fair's second songwriter/composer and most often inspired by people and events in her travels.  A lifelong love of literature led her to study Shakespeare in London and to remain fascinated with books of all sorts.  Her childhood training in classical piano and love of baroque music brought her to the accordion, which she calls her "acoustic synthesizer", and uses to give the group's arrangements many and varied textures. She has sung in everything from opera choruses to rock bands, church choirs to all-female folk groups, even once recording country music for a fellow songwriter.