Suburbia gives way to hemlock trees, which accent the Connecticut backroads along which Margot Miller’s songs were written.  Miller's songwriting and performance is shaped by their environment.  As a queer kid growing up first-gen in a robust Portuguese family, they learned the importance of leading with your chest.  With an acoustic guitar and a camp counselor’s voice, their act is one-part storytelling, two-parts energy.

 

Margot Miller is currently in the process of recording a series of four EPs, with each project dedicated to one aspect of their artistry: dynamic and sweeping musical vision, a pervasive maturity in songwriting, collaboration rooted in DIY and scene, and a raucous live show that is the foundation of their craft.  

Miller’s first release in that project, “Downy Hair (Turns Into Stubble)” was called "the only thing that has willingly made me romanticize Autumn before Labor Day" by The Underground Edit.  It features a 14-piece musical ensemble (because who doesn’t like some bassoon in their music), in addition to a choir of rowdy college students shouting along.  All these songs, orchestrated and sung with an intensity that builds an experience of candor and community.

 

Margot Miller is 5’1 and people from all around cannot believe that “all that sound comes out of somebody so small!”  From their roots growing up in community-centered, politically engaged DIY, to traveling wherever open ears are listening, each room feels charged and intimate from the moment that first chord sounds.

 

You should see them play.  You’ll smile quite a bit.