S02:04 The Journey of a Young Independent Artist | Abi Muir

Are you a young artist? Do you feel like your friends don't understand you and your career goals? Do you want to learn about sword dancing?

If you want to feel encouraged and feel like you're not alone in your music journey, then this episode is for you!

Today on the show we have Abi Muir! She's an award-winning artist who was recently presented the John Lennon Songwriting Contest award for Rock with her song Stockholm.  

On the show we discuss:

03:40 - Story behind Heebee Jibees

05:12 - Talking about Highland Dancing

07:35 - Family background

09:30 - Biggest challenge as a young artist starting out

11:15 - Dealing with negative Peer reactions to music

14:00 - Biggest accomplishments in the past years

15:30 - Process of recording with a live band compared to alone

17:30 - Things we wished we would've known years ago

17:58 - Don't worry about what others may say

18:46 - Everyone has a place in music

25:00 - Positive things to come out of a pandemic

26:30 - Fun things about the producing process  

27:30 - How Abi proaches songwriting

30:00 - Defining success

32:40 - Dislikes of putting an album together

36:20 - More information on sword dancing

39:03 - Harry Potter fan

44:35 - Superpower that Abi would like to have

46:00 - Abi's rendition of the Office theme song

46:50 - Abi's super secret talent

49:00 - The power of seeing and focusing on what you want

50:53 - Worst piece of advice

54:40 - Is music theory needed?

57:30 - Advice to other young artists

Follow her journey at abi.muir on Instagram and other social media platforms!

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