Victoria Woodworth
Victoria Woodworth hails from beautiful San Francisco, California; a place she was tragically forced to leave in childhood when her family moved away to Colorado and took her with them, forever dashing any possibility of meeting up with Neil Young in LaHonda. Resilient even at the tender age of seven years, she prevailed like a true pioneer, befitting her direct ancestral links to both Davy Crockett and Burl Ives. The teen years followed, mostly a pile of colorless blah, saved by the gift of a very inexpensive red and black guitar, a record player from Sears, an older sister’s album collection, and a formative year abroad, aimless, jobless and outstaying her welcome on both sides of the pond. At some point she began to write short, grumpy hopeful songs about her collective experiences, shooting for a rootsy yet ethereal folk/ rock/ country/ whatever flavor, and hoping to God that you all would be able to figure out the rest.
The next few years saw a number of different hairy band sagas that found Victoria putting in time as a member of some other people’s projects, ranging from a folk rock trio, Last Quarter, to the power pop band Kid Sister that ravaged the local 3.2 joints for a short but glorious stretch in the 80’s. Knowing in her heart that she was too much of an egomaniac to /ever /do that again, she built her own mousetrap, The Heros, in 2002. The group was made up of two good friends who basically couldn’t refuse when she invited them to come play her songs in little dark smelly bars for no money. As it turned out they could both actually play just fine under these conditions, so things worked out.
After a veritable coal train of ill chosen love, requited and otherwise, she met the man of her dreams in Steven Schneider (aka, Abu), when he joined the Heros to play bass in 2003. He played so well that she married him in August of 2005. Besides a band, they currently share a tall brick house in the heart of West City Park, with an aggressive gray and black tabby with a torn ear named Miles, an assortment of computer parts and accessories, plants, golf clubs, guitars, PA equipment, back issues of Westword, sexy shoes, stunning outfits, sweatpants, a couple of dead TV’s, one cello, books, bicycles, photo albums and all the other items that make a home.
