From a Dulcimer Moon to a Groundhog: Heidi Muller

Heidi Mueller and her mountain dulcimer

Today's Song of the Soul guest brings us a special gift today in the form of the mountain dulcimer, too little heard from current music scenes. Heidi Muller's first instrument was the guitar, she's become a special friend, performer, & teacher, of the dulcimer. Heidi has lived East Coast and West Coast, she been great-big-city urban, and tiny village in the country rural, but through it all, her music has kept flowing, now in partnership with Bob Webb. Heidi & Bob live in rural Northeast Oregon.

Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Methodist, Nazarene, Center for Spiritual Living, Buddhism

All featured music is written & performed by Heidi Muller, unless otherwise noted:

Cassiopeia - from Dulcimer Moon, performed with Bob Webb

Sacred Ground - from Seeing Things, performed with Bob Webb

Dulcimer Moon -from Dulcimer Moon, performed with Bob Webb

Real Change - from Gypsy Wind

Keep an Eye on the Moon - from Up Hurricane Creek, performed with Bob Webb

Groundhog - from Giving Back

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Song of the Soul

Episode Number

SOS-000682

First Air Date

Full, uncut, Heidi Muller Song of the Soul interview
From a Dulcimer Moon to a Groundhog: Heidi Muller
Heidi Muller
Dulcimer
Bob Webb
Kerrville Folk Festival
Dulcimoon Talk
Wallowa Mountains
Rise Again
Annie Patterson
Cary Black

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Guest:

Heidi Mueller

Comments

Percy Hilo (not verified) Sun, 05/11/2025 - 21:04
Good to hear a performer and friend like Heidi on this show and she stands for what is really good, strong and of high character in our music and culture. Namaste!

Heidi Muller (not verified) Sun, 05/11/2025 - 19:56
Thanks so much for listening! I wanted to clarify what I said about Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce when I talked about my song, "Sacred Ground." While the town of Joseph, Oregon was named for the chief in 1880, it was not the local residents who caused the removal of the tribe. My very general comments might have created that impression. Rather, in 1877, the US government forced Chief Joseph's band of the Nez Perce (their own tribal name is Nimiipuu, or The People) to leave their homeland at the foot of the Wallowa Mountains. This started the Nez Perce War, in which the tribe fled 1500 miles while battling with the US Army over and over again, till their trek ended in Bear Paw, Montana. There are many books about this if you'd like to find out more.

Karen Robertson (not verified) Sun, 05/11/2025 - 17:46
Thanks for the excellent interview of Heidi Muller. She expresses herself through her music, rarely sharing details of her journey. You managed to shine a light on her Spirit. If you listen closely to the lyrics of her songs, she almost always includes a phrase or two that indicates her deep conversation with the Universe. Even in her songs from ordinary events you can find a message; the importance of really SEEING a person like David, the homeless man on a Seattle street or how we can avoid sinking into the shadows if we just turn towards the Light in the seemingly jocular song about a groundhog. Several of her songs about the Moon were on constant replay for me, encouraging me to look towards and eventually go through open doors in the various stages of my grief journey after the loss of my husband. Thanks for helping others to discover the Spirit of Song. And I hope you will interview her partner, Bob Webb. He is SO modest about his gifts but he's a great story teller. I'm sure your interviewing skills could help share his deep, special kind Spirit to others.

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