(Photo credit: Casey Allen)
Marian McLaughlin is a multi-instrumental songwriter, poet, visual artist, and educator.
Guided by intuition while honoring imagination, her music embodies a peaceful atmosphere, pairing arpeggiated fingerpicking with contemplative lyrics. Starting with a stream-of-consciousness approach, her songs and poems develop body and structure while exploring aspects of wordplay, rhythm, and etymology.
Her curiosity and gratitude towards nature moves her to create, with hopes that her work reminds others of nature’s abundant offerings.
McLaughlin has released three studio albums, was a 2015 Strathmore Artist in Residence, performed a Tiny Desk Concert, and toured the United States and the UK.
She organizes music events with Hummingbird Productions and helped run the Holy Underground Arts Collective for half a decade. She has worked for the past four summers as a Teaching Artist with Young Audiences, bringing her love of music and art into academic programming.