Anointed one of the five music artists to watch for April 2015 by SPIN magazine, Heather Maloney is a singer-songwriter with an expressive, disciplined, and strong musical voice. According to her website, she studied jazz and operatic vocals in New Jersey for several years, but couldn’t quite find her place or her voice in those disciplines. As anyone who follows either of those musical traditions, while they provide a devotee with artistic heights rarely achieved in more folk-based or pop-based musical pathways, they are ones that provide few financial and material rewards. Still, she followed her muse to a silent meditation retreat in central Massachusetts. Oddly, she admits, three years of mostly silence allowed her to focus on the musical path that she decided to pursue. With guitar in hand she performed in coffee houses, libraries, and meditation centers across New England the Northeast. She signed with groundbreaking indie label Signature Sounds in 2013, which also carries Lake Street Dive and Josh Ritter. This break gave her more exposure in the music industry and among other artists. What follows is the song that made her mark, one of the most difficult songs to tackle, especially given its author: Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock.”
Life, Project Management, and Everything 