Jodi’s Music
Jodi McLaren, based in Asheville, NC, is a queer mega-feelings folk rock singer-songwriter with a joyful heart and a calming presence. Her music is inspired by Anaïs Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Rising Appalachia, Beautiful Chorus, Sylvan Esso, and Michael Franti & Spearhead. Her latest single, Love Will Find a Way (Soul Seed Song), is available everywhere music streams.
In 2020, McLaren won first place in the Hidden Voices songwriting contest at Asheville’s Grey Eagle. In 2019, McLaren completed her first solo National Queer Your Living Room Candle Light tour, bringing queer communities together in 30 living rooms and back yards across the US for intimate stories and songs about love and coming of age as a lesbian in the 2000s to 2010s. She opened for activist folk duo Emma’s Revolution in 2018.
From 2015-2018, McLaren worked as a full-time music therapist, where she led songwriting workshops with veterans, people with disabilities, stroke survivors, cancer survivors, inmates, kids, people with acute mental health issues, and mothers in addiction rehab.
She can be found traveling & hiking around with a ukulele in her backpack, ready to sing a community into being with whomever is around. Her music is intimate, courageous, playful, honest and overflowing with love.
Live Concerts
To book a concert in your home, backyard, or venue, please email: jodi@jodimclaren.com.
Recent Releases
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Music Video
Special thanks to Matt Haeck (audio producer), Ricardo Madrazo (videographer), and Panteon 19 in Todos Santos, Mexico.
Wear Your Mega Feelings
The phrase Mega Feelings started as a bumper sticker Jodi & her bestie Rachael Maddox made to give away at Burning Man. It became a descriptor for Jodi’s music, and a catch phrase for all of us who are capable of feeling intensely and expressing our emotion through tears, laughter, songs, art and connection. Mega Feelings apparel is for everyone ready to break the stigma that showing feelings is a sign of weakness… because it’s not; it’s a healthy part of being human.
Booking & Press
Jodi is available for concerts in the Western NC Region and beyond. She enjoys intimate backyards and living rooms as much as music venues & festivals.
For booking inquiries, please email: jodi@jodimclaren.com or feel free set up a phone call here.
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