Biography
Meredith has been singing since before she could talk. She believes music is our first language. A gifted singer/songwriter and performer, Meredith mesmerizes audiences with her soulful music and magical persona. Her voice communicates textures both primal and ethereal, giving the listener the feeling that Meredith has traveled extensively in both realms and has returned to share the wisdom of her journeys. She weaves haunting melodies with the lucid imagery of a sensually perceptive poet. You will not only hear her music, you will feel it.
Meredith has performed in and around Marin County at venues including The Sweetwater, Bazzar Café, Café Amsterdam, Perry’s, 19 Broadway, Bookbeat, Open Secret Bookstore, Fairfax Festival, San Anselmo Festival, Iron Springs Brewery, Marin House Concerts, Harbin Hot Springs, Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and on the Big Island of Hawaii at The Avocado Festival and South Kona Farmers’ Market.
Meredith was chosen as “Diamond in the Rough” by PME Music. Her song “Mermaid” was featured for a Film and Theater Program at Bologna University, Italy, through the Classics Department, for its focus on Greek Myth in contemporary culture. “Sunlight” was the soundtrack for a sculpture exhibit by artist Katherine Zsolt. “Little Boy Blue” received honorable mention in American Songwriting Magazine. For Meredith, song writing is a mystical process; she says, “It isn’t so much that we write a song, but that a song writes us.”
Meredith’s unique voice and wise lyrics are beautifully captured in her recent release, “Soul Siren,” a collection of 13 original songs for voice and guitar. Her three-octave range, rich emotional spectrum, and fearless improvisation shine on “Dolphin Hymns,” which was released in 2008 and recorded in Hawaii while floating in a kayak, surrounded by the chuffing of wild spinner dolphins.
A published writer who expresses herself with candor, grace, insight, and vivid imagery, Meredith is at home whether writing poetry, prose, lyrics, or non-fiction. Meredith was the Poet-in-Residence in the schools in Boulder, Colorado for 5 years, leading poetry writing workshops for teens. Her writing has appeared in We’Moon, Sulphur River, and Baobab Tree Press, The Aquarian, and a book titled "Women, Their Names, & The Stories They Tell." Her prose pieces entitled “Why I Write” and “Why I Sing” have been used by artists and educators worldwide.
A woman who thrives on being in nature and experiencing the exhilaration and sublimity of physical movement, Meredith sources her life-force through trail running, hiking, dance, and yoga. A naturalist at heart, Meredith communes in nature everyday. She spent 15 summers solo-backpacking through the national parks of the western U.S.
Meredith was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up along the Potomac River near Washington, DC. She has lived in Manhattan, London, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Maryland, Colorado, California, Hawaii, and hidden hollows in the Blue Ridge Mountains. In 2002, she made home in Marin County California, where she is a performing singer/songwriter, the co-director and teacher of Music Together of Marin, a music & movement program for children, and she teaches private music lessons in piano, guitar, and voice. Meredith holds master's degrees in writing and education.
