Jay Smith
"Smitty"

Formerly known as “Smitty Kingston," Jay has been a mainstay of the city's music scene for over 25 years, playing thousands of shows during that time. A solo country/rock artist and singer/songwriter, Jay has shared the stage with great musicians like The Tragically Hip, Tom Cochrane, Blue Rodeo, Kim Mitchell, David Wilcox, Dan Aykroyd and more. Since the young age of 6 when Jay got his first drum set then 9 with the piano and finally landing on guitar at 12 Jay’s love of music has done nothing but grow and grow. Jay wrote his first songs around the age of 15 and started playing in bands around the same time, touring around Ontario and to the west coast of Canada playing live music has been Jay’s only job for over 20 years. Constantly trying to achieve greatness Jay has never let the difficulty of the music business define him. In April 2018 there was a horrible accident in Saskatchewan that involved a bus loaded with the Humboldt Broncos hockey team headed for a playoff game, 16 people lost there lives and the news was everywhere and became a world wide story. One night after a show Jay came home to this news and couldn’t sleep thinking about the loss of lives on th... more...