Heather Woods Broderick Explained

Heather Woods Broderick
Genre:	Folk music, Indie music, Ambient music
Label:	Preservation,Western Vinyl

Heather Woods Broderick (born June 7, 1983) is an American musician and composer. She has released solo material under her own name, been a member of Efterklang, Horse Feathers and Loch Lomond, and been a member of the backing bands of Laura Gibson, Sharon Van Etten, and Lisa Hannigan.^[1]

Biography

Broderick was born in the state of Maine.^[2] She was born at home to two musicians and raised in Portland, Oregon, where she started piano lesson sat the age of 8.^[3]

She plays piano, cello, guitar and flute.^[4]

She is the sister of Peter Broderick, also a solo artist and Efterklang collaborator.

Broderick has also backed Portland-based singer-songwriter, Alela Diane, among others.

Broderick has toured with many other artists including Horse Feathers, Efterklang, and Sharon Van Etten, which has kept Broderick moving locations for nearly a decade.

Discography

Solo recordings

• From The Ground (21 Sep 2009, Preservation, CD, LP, mp3)
• Glider (10 July 2015, Western Vinyl, CD, LP, mp3)
• Invitation (19 April 2019, Western Vinyl, CD, LP, mp3)^[5]
• Domes (2022)
• Labyrinth (7 April 2023, Western Vinyl, CD, LP, mp3)

Collaborations

• Portland Stories (2009)
• Magic Chairs, Efterklang (2010)
• "Nightingale" on the album Domestic Eyes by Fast Friends (2020)
• Domes (2022, Western Vinyl, CD, LP, mp3)

External links

• Official website
• Photo at Flickr

Notes and References

1. Web site: Heather Woods Broderick From the Ground Review. discogs. 2010-10-29.
2. Web site: The Broderick's brief return to Oregon. Brandon Ellison. Oregon Music News. 2010-10-29. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100403232707/http://oregonmusicnews.com/blog/2010/04/01/the-brodericks-brief-return-to-oregon/. 2010-04-03.
3. News: McDonald . Susan . EVENTS Singing from the heart about life's dark side . 12 June 2024 . The Providence Journal . December 5, 2015.
4. Web site: Heather Woods Broderick. BBC. David Sheppard. 2010-10-29.
5. Web site: Schatz . Lake . Heather Woods Broderick announces new album, Invitation, shares "Where I Lay": Stream . . 1 February 2019 . 28 January 2019.