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April 4-6, 2025

Word of South

Maddy Walsh

Maddy Walsh is the lead singer, co-songwriter and co-founder of nationally touring, Ithaca NY-based Moxy Rock band Maddy Walsh & The Blind Spots, with whom she has released four records (El Camino Dream, 2010; Small Stampede, 2012; Rhizomatic, 2015; and Talk, 2018), several singles, and accompanying music videos. She has also released three solo albums (Patchwork, 2007; The Tunnel Sessions, 2021; and Humanmade Thing, 2021) as well as an EP (That Good Life, 2018) she recorded with her father in their acoustic duo called Madd Daddy.

Walsh holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Creative Writing from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Master’s Degree in the same field (with a concentration in poetry and creative nonfiction) from California State University at Sacramento. She finds her greatest joys in music, travel, yoga, kids, cooking, red wine, thrift shopping, driving around with her partner in all things (the co-founder and co-songwriter for MW&TBS and most of her musical projects, guitarist, composer, and husband), Mike Suave, and in her baby boy, Rhodi Rocket.

While Walsh often writes music for joy, dancing, and connection, her catalog also showcases her fierce sense of social justice and empathy within our conflicted political climate and complicated world, displaying a heart as big as her voice, as the two walk hand-in-hand through her songs.