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Heidi Schwartz is coming home

Singer/songwriter and Beavercreek grad, Heidi Schwartz, is coming home and bringing along an emotional new album.

Entitled Firefighter, Schwartz’s new album is catchy, poppy, and quite personnel. Her songs touch on the struggles she had growing up and her relationship with her father. But, behind the heartstrings and the heavy themes on the record, Schwartz manages to keep the listener singing along and entranced by melody.

She has spent the last six years living in Nashville, but called the road home for two years while touring the college and coffeehouse circuit. She spent the last year recording Firefighter which is her first full-length release.

Aside from the rock n’ roll, Schwartz is also an artist. She sells her art around Nashville at art shows and galleries.

Wanting to mix her two talents, painting and singing, Schwartz created a painting to go along with each song she has written. Like a picture book with a sound track, her unique blend of art and music is what really makes her so multi-dimensional.

Schwartz will be at Canal Street Tavern on Friday, December 15th, for her first homecoming in years. I spoke her recently about growing up in Dayton, music, and art. For more info on Heidi and her music visit her website www.heidischwartz.com.

KN - Are you ready and excited to come back to Dayton?

HS - Yea I think it will be cool. I have not performed very much in Dayton and a lot of people from my past life (in Dayton) haven’t seen me play. I think they may be surprised when they see me.

KN - How did you come up with the idea to having a picture to go with each song?

HS - I am a very creative person and a very visual person. I write music from a visual perspective. When I write the lyrics to a song I have a picture in my head to go along with it. My art is what I think my lyrics look like. I try not to be too precise and just follow my muse.

KN - What can we expect from you live?

HS - I will have a band with me this time including a bass, drums, and guitar. To keep with the art and music concept I display my paintings on stage while I perform.

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