Dan Rodriguez and Heather Maloney

Name: Dan Rodriguez and Heather Maloney
Start: 2025-09-11T20:00:00-05:00
Location: The Maintenance Shop

Schedule

Thu, 11 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Maintenance Shop | Ames, IA

Dan Rodriguez and Heather Maloney (indie folk)
Thursday, September 11 | 8PM | $20 ($15 w/ ISU Student ID) - SEATED SHOW
For fans of: Andy Grammer, Eric Hutchinson, Lake Street Dive, Shakey Graves
Dan Rodriguez:
Minneapolis-based artist Dan Rodriguez continues to create a buzz in the Midwest with his groove-based, bluesy over-toned music and powerful, seductive vocals. Rodriguez describes himself as a whiskey & beer drinking, fishing & hunting loving, motorcycle riding, quality food eating, hippie sympathizing, people loving, husband & father who lives and shares a life with his amazing wife and adorable sons.
A Detroit, MI native, Rodriguez moved to Minneapolis when he was 18 to study music, and says that he stayed because he’s “one of those crazy people that enjoys the snow and cold weather.” When he’s not in his studio writing songs and cutting records, or on the road playing shows, Rodriguez can be found tending to his backyard chickens, eating fresh veggies from his wife’s huge garden, making syrup from their maple grove, or engaging in one of his many outdoor hobbies.
Rodriguez’s popular single “I’ll Be Waiting (When You Come Home)” was featured in Budweiser’s “Friends Are Waiting” ad campaign, and was played during both The World Series and The Super Bowl. He released his acclaimed fourth studio album, Come On Home, featuring that track, the next year.
Rodriguez has shared the stage with numerous artists including The Civil Wars, Andy Grammer, Eric Hutchinson, NEEDTOBREATHE, Augustana, O.A.R., Tyrone Wells, Haley Reinhart, John McLaughlin, Will Hoge, Drew Holcomb, and Sister Hazel, to name a few.
His most recent album, the 2025 indie-released Wander, has been met with praise from critics and fans alike.

Heather Maloney:
Massachusetts-based “writer song-singer” Heather Maloney found music in the midst of three years at a meditation center, honing a sound moored in days of silent reflection and reverence for storytellers like Joni, Rilke, Ken Burns, and the anonymous authors of Zen parables. While she eventually traded the quiet, structured life of a yogi for the kinetic life of a touring musician, the core of her songwriting has remained centered around same curiosity about our inner world and the desire to articulate it through storytelling.
Heather has over 1,000 international shows and 9 studio albums under her belt, with her latest and most personal record to date, Exploding Star, having dropped in January of 2025. Written in the wake of her father’s death, Exploding Star is a collection of 12 songs that Maloney originally had no intentions of recording or releasing until some of her closest friends and family convinced her otherwise.
From tracking for 2 days in her abandoned childhood home, to playing her father’s guitar throughout the record, Exploding Star is packed with the sonic, lyrical and emotional details of a life story — and the result is something celebratory and heartbreaking all at once.
Heather’s songs have played on NPR stations across the country and her live appearances have aired on syndicated programming like eTown and AudioTree. Her song “Nightstand Drawer” was featured in the season finale of the CBS TV series Elementary, and her songs have been streamed hundreds of thousands of times on editorial Spotify playlists and on Starbucks’ in-store nationwide playlists.
As well as being a songwriter and performer, Heather is an illustrator and linocut artist who carves and prints visual representations of her songs on a variety of mediums.
Heather has toured throughout the US & Canada as a headliner and as support for acts including Lake Street Dive, Shakey Graves, Gary Clark Jr., Rodrigo y Gabriela, Colin Hay (Men at Work), Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Dar Williams, and many more.