Ryan McMahon (singer-songwriter)

In August 2021, McMahon signed on to track a single "One More Fire," which is due out in April 2022 and was recorded and produced by a team in Vancouver's Warehouse Studios, including Jordan Pritchett & Danielle Marie King of Cross Parallel, Sheldon Zaharko and Canadian country music singer Aaron Pritchett.

In January 2019 a video and single entitled Too Tired For Love was released in advance of the full-length record In Line For a Smile. McMahon worked with producer/collaborator Zak Cohen of Woodshop Recording Studios, outside Duncan, BC. Said Ryan: "In Zak, I've found the Jorge Calderon to my Warren Zevon. We finish each other's musical sentences, and generally are on the same page when it comes to serving the song."

In 2017, McMahon recorded a 5-song EP in his home studio 'The Song Shelter' entitled Song Shelter Recordings. "I wanted to take my lack of technology and couple it with all my experience that told me I wasn't skilled enough to record music, and throw it out the window. I wanted to make music as I did when I was 17 - I wanted no expectations, nobody telling me no, and most of all, I wanted to have fun. The result is a very flawed, honest recording of my state of mind at the time of the recording."

McMahon released a new album titled Put Me Back Together in April 2015. McMahon, who has released five full-length albums in 15 years, says the record is a reflection of his time living on Vancouver Island. It includes a song that pays tribute to his hometown of Ladysmith. "There is a lot of reflection of living on Vancouver Island after living in the city for eight years", he told the Nanaimo News Bulletin. The new album features 11 new songs. All songs were produced and mixed by Christopher Arruda, except "I'll Be Damned", which was produced and mixed by Andre Wahl. The album was mastered by Joby Baker at Baker Studios.

McMahon's song "I'll Be Damned" was featured in the Showtime television series Californication, aired on Season 7, Episode 3 in April 2014.

The band, which was a Top 20 Finalist in The Peak 102.7 FM's British Columbia-wide Peak Performance Project, released its debut EP, We'd Be Good Men, 8 October 2013.

In 2013, McMahon and his band, the lion the bear the fox, joined forces with the Vancouver, British Columbia-based charity Music Heals and created the Bandwagon Project initiative to raise money to bring a mobile recording studio used by music therapists called the Bandwagon to Vancouver Island. Bandwagon is the world's first mobile recording studio designed specifically for use by music therapists, and it contains microphones, instruments, a computer, recording software and more to aid therapists to work with patients.

As a solo artist, McMahon won a record three Vancouver Island Music Awards for Album of the Year, Male Artist of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year in 2012.

In 2012, McMahon was nominated for five Vancouver Island Music Awards — the most of any Island musician. McMahon earned nominations for Artist of the Year, Male Songwriter of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year, while his album All Good Stories was nominated as Album of the Year, and the official video for One Way was up for Music Video of the Year.

McNeil died January 8, 2011, at the age of 20 while battling cancer for the fourth time, and she continues to inspire McMahon.

In 2010, McMahon met Megan McNeil, a singer from North Delta, British Columbia, who wrote a song called "The Will To Survive" while battling a rare type of adrenal cancer. McNeil's song, proceeds of which are donated to childhood cancer causes such as The James Fund for Neuroblastoma Research, was recorded with producer Garth Richardson – who has worked with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nickelback – in Vancouver, British Columbia.

McMahon released the album Better Days Gone By in 2006. His next effort, featuring songs written over the span of a decade, was Weeks, Months, Years, which was released in 2008. "It's a CD about time. It's a CD about growing into being a man and finding out what kind of fella I want to be", McMahon said while on tour celebrating the album's release. The song "Road Signs" from that album was included on Big Rock Brewery's 2009 compilation CD, Big Rock Untapped 2. In 2011, McMahon released All Good Stories, an acoustic album recorded at Richard Leighton's home studio in Lantzville, British Columbia. "All Good Stories is exactly that: a collection of stripped-down material that I needed to record in a very organic environment", McMahon has said. McMahon describes All Good Stories, which was named Album of the Year at the 2012 Vancouver Island Music Awards, as the most honest album he has created so far. "It was the first time that I'd ever let the songs stand by themselves", he says. "The whole mantra of that record was what is the least amount of stuff I can do to this record to make it great and just let it stand on its own."

Ryan McMahon (born 19 October 1979) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Ladysmith, British Columbia. He records and performs as a solo artist and also as a member of the folk/rock band the lion the bear the fox.