{"id":195627,"date":"2026-05-18T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195627\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:00:38","slug":"music-monday-lehigh-valleys-own-maria-woodford-music-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195627\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Lehigh Valley’s own Maria Woodford | Music Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALISBURY TWP., Pa. – Music Mondays are back, and we are thrilled to welcome the Lehigh Valley’s own Maria Woodford<\/a> to our studio ahead of her very busy summer performance season.<\/p>\n

She blends the blues, folk, and jazz music, her website says.<\/p>\n

She talked about how she got her start, pointing out she has been singing since she was a little kid.<\/p>\n

Her sound and style are very unique, with a heavy emphasis in her love for storytelling. She said writing and performing music is a good way to process what happens in real life, and a way to connect with people.<\/p>\n

She said her songs are “snapshots of a feeling.”<\/p>\n

Woodford, who’s from Hellertown, won a number of awards for both her songwriting and her music.<\/p>\n

She’s\u00a0a third-place winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her song, “Travellin’ On,” a semi-finalist in the International Blues Competition, and a Jim Beam Grant Recipient, her website says.<\/p>\n

Her website says she is the first, and one of only two, artists to be granted mechanical rights to Nina Simone’s “Do I Move You,” which is given only to those artists handpicked by Nina Simone’s daughter, according to how well their rendition honors the original meaning of the song.<\/p>\n

Woodford said she will be at the Pine Ridge Music Festival<\/a> in Albrightsville, in the Poconos, this weekend. She will be doing a vocal awakening workshop at the festival Saturday morning. All the workshops are included in the price of the festival tickets.<\/p>\n

Tickets are still available.<\/p>\n

She will be performing at 8 p.m. June 25 at Godfrey Daniels<\/a>, a music listening room venue in Bethlehem. People can go to the venue’s website for tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa. – Music Mondays are back, and we are thrilled to welcome the Lehigh Valley’s own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,25750],"class_list":["post-195627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-musicmonday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}