Grant Lawrence (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian broadcaster, musician and writer based in

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, primarily associated with CBC Music and

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. Lawrence was also the vocalist for the

indie rock Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produc ...

group

The Smugglers ''The Smugglers'' is the completely missing first serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 10 September to 1 October 1966. In this serial ...

.Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, '' Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985-1995''. ECW Press. .

Work

In addition to his regular shifts on Radio 3 itself, Lawrence was the host of Radio 3's Saturday night program on the CBC Radio 2 network until March 17, 2007, when that program was discontinued, and was also regular host of the service's monthly

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. '' Spin'' magazine dubbed it the best podcast in Canada. In 2012, he also hosted the summer series ''The Wild Side'' on

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, and became the host of the '' CBC Music Top 20'' in 2020. Lawrence began his association with the CBC in the 1990s, filing stories about life on tour with the Smugglers for

David Wisdom David Wisdom is a Canadian artist and former radio personality, best known as the host of ''Night Lines'', ''RadioSonic'', ''Radio-On'', and ''Pearls of Wisdom'' on CBC Radio 2.Night Lines ''Night Lines'' was a Canadian radio series, which aired on CBC Stereo from 1984 to 1997.Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, '' Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985-1995''. ECW Press. . The show, which aired on Fr ...

''. When ''Nightlines'' ended in 1997, Wisdom and

Leora Kornfeld Leora Kornfeld is a digital media researcher and consultant and former radio personality. She was best known for hosting ''RealTime'' on CBC Stereo in the 1990s, which was billed as the first radio program in the world to integrate emerging Intern ...

, the former host of ''

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'', went on to host the new series ''

RadioSonic ''RadioSonic'' was a Canadian radio program, which aired on CBC Radio 2 from 1997 to 2003.Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, '' Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985-1995''. ECW Press. . ''RadioSonic'', which aired ...

''. Lawrence initially worked for the show as a researcher, and later became a producer, and became host of ''RadioSonic'' in 2001 after Wisdom and Kornfeld left the program. In the summer of 2013, Lawrence and director Brent Hodge did a cross-country tour called '' The Beetle Roadtrip Sessions'', which was distributed as a

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on CBC Music and other streaming video sites. It followed Lawrence across Canada visiting various musicians and other personalities along the way, including the Darcys,

Hollerado Hollerado was a Canadian indie rock band from Ottawa, Ontario. Formed in 2007, the band consisted of Menno Versteeg (lead vocals, guitar), Nixon Boyd (lead guitar, backing vocals), Dean Baxter (bass, backing vocals) and Jake Boyd (drums, backing v ...

, Sam Roberts, Theo Fleury,

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and others. ''The Beetle Roadtrip Sessions'' won an award for Best Original Program or Series produced for Digital Media – Non-Fiction at the

2nd Canadian Screen Awards The 2nd Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 9, 2014, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2013.Adventures in Solitude ''Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound'' is a non-fiction book by musician and broadcaster Grant Lawrence, first published in October 2010 by Harbour Publishing. In the book, the autho ...

: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound'', in 2010. A memoir of his visits to the

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area of British Columbia, the book was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer. Canada's most lucrative non-fiction prize, the winner re ...

and the 2011

Edna Staebler Award The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is an annual literary award recognizing the previous year's best creative nonfiction book with a "Canadian locale and/or significance" that is a Canadian writer's "first or second published book of ...

. Lawrence published his second book, ''The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie'', in 2013. Both books won the BC Book Prize for Book of the Year in their respective years. His third book, ''Dirty Windshields: The Best and the Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries'', was published in 2017.

Personal life

He is married to singer-songwriter

Jill Barber Jill Barber (born February 6, 1980) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Originally associated with the folk-pop genre, she has performed vocal jazz and pop music on her more recent albums.hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...

for the Vancouver Flying Vees, an amateur hockey team staffed largely by Canadian musicians.the flying vees

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrence, Grant 1971 births Living people Musicians from Vancouver Canadian indie rock musicians Canadian rock singers Canadian podcasters Writers from Vancouver CBC Radio hosts 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers 21st-century Canadian male writers Canadian memoirists Canadian male non-fiction writers 21st-century Canadian male singers 21st-century memoirists