Madigan Linnane’s senior year to-do list: Apply to college, release 1st album

Madigan Linnane has passed some significant milestones in her senior year at Grafton High School. 

She’s applied early action to Berklee College of the Performing Arts.

And, oh yeah, she finally finished and released the music album she started when she was all of 13 years old.

“I started writing music when I was 10 — that’s when I wrote my first song,” said Linnane, now 17. “I started in the studio when I was 13, 14 years old but school got in the way.”

Last winter, she released a Christmas single, “Snow Falls.” Her album, “Beautiful Me,” is now available through iTunes, Spotify, YouTube and CD Baby, and will be added to Google Play and Amazon Music over the course of this week.

Linnane is a familiar voice in the region. She regularly plays at the Grafton Grill during Sunday brunch or on Tuesday nights, has made appearances at the Hopkinton Country Club, and has popped up at the Grafton Farmers Market and various coffee shops.

Her musical start came in the second grade when she joined the chorus. A few years later, she started on the guitar and piano.

“The lyric thing just came out of nowhere,” I guess,” she said. “I wasn’t looking to write music, I just started observing things around me, people around me, and it came pouring out.”

Her album was recorded at Wachusett Recording, based in Princeton, and produced by Michael Harmon. “It was such a comforting environment to produce and record,” she said.

Linnane credits her parents for supporting her music dreams. Should she attend Berklee, she hopes to study songwriting and music therapy. Should she end up in a college with less of a musical focus, she will look into psychology.

“No matter what happens, I definitely always want to have music in my life,” she said.