DAUGHTER OF GORDON LIGHTFOOT, LAUNCHES NEW ALBUM

THE MUSICIAN SAYS SHE'S EXCITED TO TRAVEL, SEE OLD FRIENDS AND RETURN TO PETERBOROUGH'S LIVE MUSIC SCENE

It's been a few years since she's released an album, but returning to the stage and seeing an audience listening to her music is why Meredith Moon picks up a guitar and plays.

"Playing shows is a reward for playing music," said Moon, who will be at the Gordon Best Theatre on Water Street on April 1, alongside folk musician Benj Rowland, to premier her second album, "Constellations."

"Playing in Peterborough is always a pleasure," said Moon, who is also the daughter of famed Canadian musician Gordon Lightfoot.

Moon describes her music as being "intimate ... like I invited someone to my bedroom and I'm playing songs I just wrote."

"I try to make it sound like I'm sharing songs with a friend."

The first album, "Forest Far Away" released in 2018. But since then the world has changed dramatically.

The COVID-19 pandemic robbed artists of their live venues, and it took away a lot of the energy from playing music.

"I gave music a total break, pretty much," she said, adding she took up cooking instead.

Moon says she felt like "if I wasn't playing shows, it felt pointless," though now she realizes she was mistaken, and music can be "therapeutic" to play even without an audience.

But in spring of 2022, she wrote two new songs, which are on "Constellations," and got back into doing shows again.

And now she's going on

tour, with Peterborough being one of the first destinations. Travelling is always exciting, she says, because of all the old faces she gets to see. Her dogs also enjoy seeing new places too, she adds.

And while she may have a musical lineage, she says it's the people and places she's visited which have defined her musical career.

"I'm product of all the people I've hung out with in my adult life more so, who are all travelling musicians," she said.

So getting back to travelling, playing shows and meeting people will all be a part of continuing that adventure.

"I like moving around a lot, I don't really like staying still," she added.