About 

Growing up in Chicago as the daughter of the quirky and whimsical VeggieTales composer Kurt Heinecke, author and spoken-word artist Gretchen Demonbreun has always had a passion for music and how it can carry on a legacy. Demonbreun continues this love for the arts as an elementary school music teacher in middle TN, is married to Weston, a high school band director, and is the mother to a classic-car-loving son, Fisher.

As a writer, Gretchen is most known for her liturgies, taking inspiration from Douglas McKelvey’s “Every Moment Holy,” and also performs spoken-word pieces, finding influence from Hosanna Wong.

After Iceland captured a piece of her and her husband’s hearts, they now reside in the countryside outside Nashville, TN in their own Scandinavian barndominium. Even their home tells the legacy of family that came before, with the majority of pieces being passed down as far as her great-grandparents. There you’ll find a stack of CS Lewis books and hear the record player cranking out a healthy assortment of polkas, church organ music, orchestral hits, and other kitschy records from estate sales.

Demonbreun puts intentionality behind everything she does and finds the meaning in the mundane.