Heidi Muller

Poetic lyrics arranged to fingerstyle classical guitar and hill dulcimer melodies have produced Seattle-based Heidi Muller among the Northwest’s leading singer/songwriters and song interpreters. Muller’s four self-produced albums, released on her behalf personal Cascadian label, have already been enthusiastically received by folk music followers throughout the USA. Muller’s “Great Road” may be the theme track for Northwest General public Radio’s Inland Folk display, while her 1989 album Issues of the Center, was nominated as Greatest Folk Recording of the entire year in the Northwest Region Music Association honours. A finalist in the Kerrville Folk Festival’s New Folk songwriting competition in 1989, Muller inherited her like of music from her parents. Muller’s mom played classic music from the 1920s and ’30s around the piano, and her father adored to recite poetry. Muller was also motivated by an uncle who performed East German folk music in the zither. Understanding how to play electric guitar at age eleven, Muller performed in several senior high school rock and roll rings. In the past due 1960s, nevertheless, Muller was motivated with the folk-pop music of Joni Mitchell and Adam Taylor and exchanged her guitar for an acoustic model. While participating in Eastern Nazarene University in Quincy, Massachusetts, where she gained an undergraduate level in mindset, Muller distributed a dormitory area with multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Gail Rundlett. Both women begun to perform jointly being a duo in 1975, and became regular performers at cathedral coffeehouses, Boston Moral Society conferences and clubs like the Sword AS WELL AS THE Rock in Boston. A turning stage in Muller’s musical strategy emerged when she went to a functionality by Costs Staines. Regarding to a recently available interview, Muller discovered from Staines that “an musician could work separately with out a record label or a realtor.” In the years since, Muller provides remained independent, reserving her displays and launching her albums on her behalf very own label. After graduating from university, Muller transferred temporarily back again to NJ before continuing to Houston, Tx, where she spent two . 5 years controlling her musical profession with a time job being a transitional counselor. Muller transferred to Seattle, Washington, in 1981, where she proceeds to reside in. Her debut record, Between the Drinking water and the Breeze, premiered on cassette in 1985 and was accompanied by Matters from the Center in 1989, Cassiopeia in 1992, and Offering Back 1996. Muller’s music have been included in Gail Rundlett, Little Potatoes, Marsha Webb, Straw Into Silver and Waterbound. She proceeds to instruct and business lead workshops on all degrees of hill dulcimer, folk electric guitar, songwriting and music business abilities. Muller is certainly a board person in Victory Music, an all-volunteer group that publishes a regular mag, hosts open-mic evenings, and shows business abilities to music artists in the Seattle region.