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Coffeehouse Sessions: Marie Miller

7pm: Doors Open
8pm: Concert

Tickets: $6 Advance/$10 At Door
Children Under 13 are Free!

When Marie Miller writes a song, she does what all gifted writers do: She looks at her life and into her heart to make sure what she creates comes from real emotion and experience.
She also does something none of peers likely do: she searches through classic literature, whether it be Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy or Homer. There, she finds parallels for what she wants to say, channels that inspiration into her lyrics and comes up with something unique: Music thats immediate and timeless, driven by feelings all listeners can relate to yet infused with a perspective that transcends the present.

I have a song called Story on my new album, she explains, referencing Letterbox, released in 2017 on Curb Records. It brings in a lot of epic characters: Heathcliff and Catherine from Wuthering Heights, Hectors wife Andromache from The Iliad. Ive always loved epic stories Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment because theyre filled with relationships that are super serious and dramatic. Sometimes I feel like Im right there in the midst of them.

Yet Letterbox is no droning lecture on literature. Its a celebration of freedom. Miller has paid plenty of dues to get to the point where she feels she can write what she wants how she wants to, and sing without constraint. Still young, she has survived years in the music business. She impacted initially with the infectious, Youre Not Alone. More than 115,000 downloaded that single on Amazon. ABCs Dancing with the Stars featured her second single, 62, in 2014.

Thats a success story for sure, one that Miller is grateful to have had. Still, she realized that this was only the first of many steps she needed to take to achieve her goals.

Read more: http://mariemillermusic.com/about/