"This is it. Oh my God," singer Jann Arden exclaims as she walks down a flight of stairs in Calgary's Smuggler's Inn. She enters the dim lounge area for the first time in more than 30 years.
"This is one of the first rooms where I started playing original music," Arden says.
At the Juno Awards on March 15, Arden will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in recognition of a musical career that started in a basement. To mark her induction, Arden spent a day with CBC Music and visited locations that have been meaningful to her, and important to her career.