Please find below article on Toni recently published in the Vail Daily

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Success on her own terms
Folk rocker Toni Catlin plays Loaded Joe's in Avon on Saturday
By Charlie Owen

COWEN@VAILDAILY.COM

Toni Catlin decided she wanted to become a musician, and then she made it happen. She went from a childhood in Vermont to working the Telluride Bluegrass Festival to Nashville, Tenn., where she immersed herself in the songwriter's world. She heeded the advice of many of her friends in the music industry who said Nashville was the place to be if she wanted to get noticed and possibly even get signed to a label as a songwriter.

"I would say Nashville was a great place to develop myself and challenge myself musically," Catlin said.

Nashville was just one step in a career that would accelerate quickly into playing music festivals throughout the South, an overseas tour in the United Kingdom and recording her first compact disc, "Heartache on the Run." Throughout the process, she has remained fiercely independent by staying away from major-label excesses, and she's proud of it. While not achieving the breakout status of Sheryl Crow or Shawn Colvin, she also said she won't let music control her life. When she's not busy writing, recording or playing music, Catlin said she loves to ski and bike and is an outdoor enthusiast by nature. The more cerebral aspects of music and songwriting counterbalance the active side of her life, she said.

Independent spirit

Catlin is hesitant to boast about her accomplishments, even shy, as if she has no desire to have a spotlight shine on her. But according to her, that's just not true. "If I had the opportunity to get to the next level with my music, I would — I'd go for it," said Catlin, who remains determined to find success on her own terms by marketing herself independently and through avenues that don't involve major labels or corporate contracts. Stardom doesn't appeal to Catlin, but getting her music into more listeners' ears does. Finding the happy medium between the two is the hard part, she said.
Since recording "Heartache on the Run," Catlin has recorded two other albums, one called "Covered," an all-cover-song acoustic project, and "Uncovered," a more rootsy folk-rock album of original songs tnat she said is more her natural writing style. "I think both my singing and sondwriting has gotten a lot stronger, and I would say this most recent album is more representative of, you know, who I am now", Catlin Said.

SPECIAL TO THE DAILY

Singer-songwriter Toni Catlin, whose nonmusical activities include skiing, horseback riding and hiking, will play original songs Saturday night at Loaded Joe's, many of them from her two independently produced albums.

If you go...

What: Singer-songwriter Toni Catlin.
Where: Loaded Joe's in Avon.
When: 10 p.m. Saturday.
Cost $1 at the door.
More information: Call 748-1480 or visft www.loadedjoes.com.