Uploaded February 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
A little bit about my experience of learning to shred.
Noted philanthropist, tone poet, and world's most unlikely guitar hero, Mrs. Smith has captured the public imagination with her unbridled creative expression in the face of a life filled with grief and rage. With an improbable life-tale that includes a lonesome childhood of privilege, 14 marriages, and show biz stardom and obscurity, Mrs. Smith is a 20th Century creature who has burst through to the internet age to become a sensation.
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Mrs. Smith is the 2016 winner of the “Shred for Your Life” contest held at Webster Hall and was a featured performer at the Guitar Gods Festival in Miami opening up for guitar legends Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai. A video of her shredding on the streets of the East Village was shared by Guitar World Magazine and garnered 1.2 million views. Her unique blend of musical performance comedy has been featured on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, PBS Television as well as Joe’s Pub, Le Poisson Rouge, The Cutting Room, 54 Below, First Avenue, Webster Hall, Ars Nova, The Laurie Beechman Theater, Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, The Bell House, Union Hall, and the legendary Bushwig Festival, among many others.
© David Hanbury 2017 all rights reserved
A little bit about my experience of learning to shred.
Noted philanthropist, tone poet, and world's most unlikely guitar hero, Mrs. Smith has captured the public imagination with her unbridled creative expression in the face of a life filled with grief and rage. With an improbable life-tale that includes a lonesome childhood of privilege, 14 marriages, and show biz stardom and obscurity, Mrs. Smith is a 20th Century creature who has burst through to the internet age to become a sensation.
FOLLOW MRS. SMITH:
facebook.com/smithcatmrs
instagram.com/smithcatmrs
worldofsmith.com
Mrs. Smith is the 2016 winner of the “Shred for Your Life” contest held at Webster Hall and was a featured performer at the Guitar Gods Festival in Miami opening up for guitar legends Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai. A video of her shredding on the streets of the East Village was shared by Guitar World Magazine and garnered 1.2 million views. Her unique blend of musical performance comedy has been featured on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, PBS Television as well as Joe’s Pub, Le Poisson Rouge, The Cutting Room, 54 Below, First Avenue, Webster Hall, Ars Nova, The Laurie Beechman Theater, Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, The Bell House, Union Hall, and the legendary Bushwig Festival, among many others.
© David Hanbury 2017 all rights reserved
