Mary Coppin

• Main Stage at The Kerrville Folk Festival - Kerrville, TX
• The Rocky Mountain Folks Festival - Lyons, CO
• Winterfest Stage at The Winter Olympics - Salt Lake City, UT
• The Bluebird Cafe - Nashville, TN
• Opening for Natalie Merchant in front of 10,000 people - Telluride, CO
• Headlining at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center - Lancaster, CA
• Opening for Willie Nelson - Maui, HI
• EAT’M Music Conference Showcase - Las Vegas, NV
• SXSW Showcase - Austin, TX
• NAMM - Anaheim, CA & Nashville, TN
• SWRFA Official Showcase Folk Alliance Austin, TX
• NERFA TriCentric Showcase Folk Alliance Monticello, NY

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Mary just always wrote songs. Starting from at least age 3 when she wrote new words over the songs on the radio and age 4 when she wrote a song to the music she heard coming out of the washing machine. Did we mention she was the odd-ball of her family? "I was a curly-haired girl in a long straight hair world." While growing up in Arizona she didn't plan on being a performer (BAD stage fright!) but always dreamed of others recording her songs. Then one day her mentor, songwriter Phil Swan said, "You should go to Kerrville." Mary said "What's Kerrville?" In 1998 Mary did enter Kerrville's songwriting competition. Stage fright was alive and well, "I was a deer in the headlights," but founder Rod Kennedy liked what he heard and even though Mary didn't win (although it is often reported that she did), Rod booked her as a Main Stage performer for the following year. So since Mary had had a terrible time just being able to play two songs in a row for the contest, she thought to herself, "I guess I better get an act together." And while she was at it, she recorded a CD too. Now Mary has gone on to perform across the country and is the winningest unsigned songwriter out there. She's garnered too many awards to list, but some highlights include the top prize (out of over 30,000 entries) in The John Lennon Songwriting Contest, 1st place in The Telluride Troubadour Competition and Winner of the "Best Out Of County" category in The Orange County Music Awards. But Mary isn't just about winning prestigious songwriting awards, her music is about how a heart moves through the world. Leading a listener on a journey where they can feel how the air feels on the character of a song's skin. How a lover's breath feels on the back of Mary's neck. Some songs are exactly about Mary's life and others are her feeling other people's feelings. So deeply that you'd swear it was her. "When I write I can just feel this spirit of a song coming through, wanting life and I try to tell it's story." About performing she says, "I always just pray to simply move people. Make them laugh, help them cry. Move people. It's an honor." Mary did finally work through the stage fright by performing consistantly and acupressure. And live, Mary does move people, making strangers cry with the poignant "A Room Up For Rent" and then emoting endearing insecurity with "Would You Could You", both very big winners in the songwriting contest arena. But her favorite song right now is the very funny-sexy newer song not on the CD (but a big hit live), "Insatiable". "It's a little embarrassing to sing sometimes but sex IS a gift from God and it's a very honest song."