Michelle Lynn performing at The Mill tonight
BY ELLE WIGNALL | JUNE 14, 2012 6:30 AM
From booking to traveling to taking the stage, singer/songwriter Michelle Lynn is a self-made musician.
"I book my own shows. I do every single aspect of it," she said. "There's enough room to have both aspects in your personality."
Lynn's flexibility and eagerness to create have
helped her build a name for herself over the last seven years while
still staying close to the music she loves.
She began creating music right after high school
in 2005, she said. She started performing locally in the Decorah area,
and now, her music takes her all over the Midwest.
She has long been drawn to experimenting with aspects of creating art, and it keeps her music fresh.
"I always really liked to write, and I think the idea of writing
music was really intriguing to me because I liked to write poems," she
said. "It became this natural transition of always liking to create
things. [Music] became my favorite thing to create."
When Lynn takes the stage with her guitar, she produces what she calls folk-rock.
"I think it's a little bit more aggressive guitar
playing than typical folk," she said. "I like a lot of rhythm in it, but
it still stems from that folk idea of one person telling a story."
The most recent two of Lynn's five albums since
2005, Without an Outline (2012) and Sundial Tree (2010), come from a
"very spiritually oriented place," Lynn said, and their songs have a
sound that she is "proud to communicate to other people."
"I really like to write music that, you know, just makes people feel outside the normal realm of their days," she said.
