Lindsay Mac

Lindsay Mac is a singer/songwriter/cellist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lindsay Mac
GenresFolk
LabelsTaiga Records, Red Cello Records
WebsiteLindsayMac.com

Early life

Mac was raised in Iowa City, Iowa. Mac began playing the cello at the age of nine.

Education

Mac attended Dartmouth College, and her interest in becoming a classical cellist led her to study abroad at the Royal College of Music in London. Mac briefly left Dartmouth after being accepted to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. While there, she had concluded that classical music was not her calling.[1]

Returning to receive her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, and living in a wood-heated New Hampshire cabin, Mac began adapting her cello technique. Though she had decided that her dream was to be a singer/songwriter, she remained committed to the cello as her instrument. “I just wanted to take my love for the cello and put it into a context in which I felt I was really in touch with my muse.” [2]

Mac enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in Boston but was anxious to begin performing. She soon hit the road playing clubs and folk festivals. She performs as a solo act or with a backing band and has sat in with other artists; including Catie Curtis and Michelle Shocked. She has also opened for Curtis, as well as k.d. lang, Glen Phillips, Vance Gilbert, and Girlyman.[3]

Cello technique

In order to stand while singing on stage, Mac harnesses the cello with a shoulder strap and does not use a bow. She plucks the strings in a manner similar to the traditional pizzicato technique, but largely employs a more percussive approach. The strings are alternately strummed like a guitar or slapped like a bass.

While rehabilitating from a back injury, Mac was motivated and inspired by the pop music playing over the gym’s stereo. Unable to play the cello comfortably, Mac built a stand-up computer workstation and started composing on the Garage Band software platform. The cello is almost absent in Mac’s third record, the electro/synth-pop EP album, Animal Again, released in 2015.

Discography

Mac's first album, Small Revolution, was released in 2005 and re-released by Taiga Records in 2007.

  • Small Revolution (2005 Red Cello Records) (2007 Taiga Records)
  • Stop Thinking (2008 Taiga Records)
  • Animal Again EP (2015 Lindsay Mac)
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References
  1. Boston Globe August 31, 2007 by Linda Laban
  2. Strings Magazine February 2006 by Tiffany Maleshefski Archived 2006-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Sonicbids press kit
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