Lindsay Mac

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Name = Lindsay Mac


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Background = solo_singer
Genre = Folk
Label = Taiga Records, Red Cello Records
URL = [http://www.lindsaymac.com/ LindsayMac.com]

Lindsay Mac is a singer/songwriter/cellist raised in Iowa City, Iowa and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mac began playing the cello at the age of nine. She attended Dartmouth College, and her interest in becoming a classical cellist led her to study abroad at the Royal College of Music in London. She briefly left Dartmouth after being accepted to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. While there, she had concluded that classical music was not her calling. [ [http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/08/31/club_passim_ushers_in_a_new_generation_of_folk/ Boston Globe August 31, 2007 by Linda Laban] ]

Returning to receive her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth, and living in a wood-heated New Hampshire cabin, Mac began adapting her cello technique. Though she had decided that her dream was to be a singer/songwriter, she remained committed to the cello as her instrument. “I just wanted to take my love for the cello and put it into a context in which I felt I was really in touch with my muse.” [ [http://www.stringsmagazine.com/article/136/136,3528,Encore-1.asp Strings Magazine February 2006 by Tiffany Maleshefski] ]

Mac enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in Boston but was anxious to begin performing. She soon hit the road playing clubs and folk festivals. She performs as a solo act or with a backing band and has sat in with other artists; including Catie Curtis and Michelle Shocked. She has also opened for Curtis, as well as k.d. lang, Glen Phillips, Vance Gilbert, and Girlyman. [ [http://www.sonicbids.com/LindsayMac Sonicbids press kit] ]

Mac's first album, Small Revolution, was released in 2005 and re-released by Taiga Records in 2007.

2007 Falcon Ridge Festival Emerging Artist -- "selected as a Most Wanted Performer to return for the 2008 Festival"
2007 NXNE Artist
2007 Starbucks Music Makers Competition Finalist
2007 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Finalist
2007 Folk West's IndieFest
2007 CT Folk Festival
2007 Houston Women's Music Festival


Cello Technique
In order to stand while singing on stage, Mac harnesses the cello with a shoulder strap and does not use a bow. She plucks the strings in a manner similar to the traditional pizzicato technique, but largely employs a more percussive approach. The strings are alternately strummed like a guitar or slapped like a bass.

Discography
Small Revolution (2005 Red Cello Records) (2007 Taiga Records)
Stop Thinking (2008 Taiga Records)

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External links

* [http://www.lindsaymac.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/lindsaymacmusic MySpace Page]
* [http://www.sonicbids.com/LindsayMac SonicBids Press Kit]