Artist description What happens when a young woman whose promising musical career was de-railed wakes up fifteen years later as a tubby soccer mom with years' worth of unrecorded material? Fifteen years ago, the CD in progress was for you. Now that I've been inspired to adapt and overcome (see story below), the CD -- fifteen years in the making -- is more for me, to prove that life hasn't passed me by and that just maybe, "I've still got it." If you don't throw stuff, I'm happy. If you like it, I'm honored. Thanks for humoring me!

Music Style Acoustic-type rock

Musical Influences NEIL AND TIM FINN, Shawn Colvin, Tori Amos, Ron Sexsmith

Similar Artists Take the Indigo Girls and replace the members with Linda Ronstadt and Cyndi Lauper, and that's probably it.

Artist History After winning the dubious honors of "Most Talented," "Most Likely to Be On MTV" and "Worst Driver" by her senior class, this teenage church organist ditched a full college scholarship to move to Arizona and become a professional musician. For three successful years, she kept busy with numerous solo, duo and band engagements everywhere from bars to Scottsdale's most prestigious resorts. While also having performed in Niteworks and The Express, Heidi achieved public notice, regional radio airplay and the cover of a local newsweekly with her band, Attitude Cat. An unfortunate, uninsured burglary of her musical equipment forced Heidi back east in 1992, when she put herself through community college by playing restaurant cocktail piano, happy hours, corporate and special events, and at a full-time hotel engagement with the Rick Parker Band. Upon the arrival of her children, Heidi unplugged her keyboard, turned off her microphone, and got a "real job" to provide things like insurance for the kids. Sometimes sad and wondering "what if I'd kept going," she never stopped writing but gave up performing; her musical pursuits were relegated to radio jingles and background music for commercials. In 2000, a chance meeting with New Zealand artist Tim Finn proved to ignite old fires when he encouraged her by explaining that "somebody has to hear your music...even the dog." On July 18, 2002, Heidi was invited onstage to sing a duet with Tim's brother, artist Neil Finn. The duet received national attention when Neil lauded it as "brilliant" in an MTV interview the following day. So finally, oddly enough, Heidi did end up on MTV as predicted by her senior class (well, sorta...)! After deliberating long and hard, and realizing that the popular American music industry has no real place for tubby soccer moms, Heidi decided that the wisdom and encouragement she'd received from the Finn brothers was a cosmic kick in the ass to stop giving up, to stop denying her musical origins, and to go back and do something with all that music she's accumulated over fifteen years. Heidi returned to performing for the first time in seven years on June 19, 2003...the first time her own children had ever heard her sing anywhere other than the car. Plans are at this point to finally release something, to start playing out more regularly again, and to participate in an upcoming tribute album to the Finn Brothers, without whom this mid-life musical re-awakening would have been improbable.

Group Members Heidi McDonald, the over-the-hill lounge singer. Heidi McDonald, the reformed church organist. Heidi McDonald, the Ann Wilson Wanna-Be. Heidi McDonald, the Mommy. Heidi McDonald, the politician and social justice activist. Heidi McDonald, the one with her heart on her sleeve and inside the tram at all times.

Instruments Keyboard and more keyboard. Other instruments that sound like other instruments, but are really a keyboard.

Albums (coming soon)

Press Reviews None......YET.

Additional Info Please visit HeidiWrites.com for more information, or e-mail heidi@heidiwrites.com

Location Pittsburgh, PA - USA

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