The Chronicles of Christi Michelle

Announcing

Hired Guns

The Chronicles of Christi Michelle and her Hired Guns is a full band ensemble carefully curated to provide High Caliber Entertainment.

Christi is capable of taking her performances to the next level supported by a collection of professional high caliber musicians.

Together Christi Michelle and her Hired Guns will entertain the masses, no party too small, no festival too big.

Now booking casinos, corporate and private events, music venues, and night clubs.

Hired Guns is debuting Wednesday March 19th 8-11pm at the Engels Pub of Edmonds. Join us as we co-create history in the making.

This is the good stuff

This is my sentimental journey to self love over self loathing. This is the space I get to be fully transparent with you, I refuse to be in any place where I can't be my 100% whole self. You now have access to my demo songs, videos of live performances, photo shoots, my multi-media art projects, and other ways for my loyal fans to find deeper access to me. Links to find all of my social media platforms, where to tip or how you can tribute can be found here [on this website]

Currently booking:

Fall&Winter 2024 in the Local PNW/Puget Sound area: wineries, breweries, coffee shops, theaters, private events, house parties, special events,

2025 Festival Season Micro Music Festivals, Outdoor Productions, Organized Events, Community Performances, Cultural Activities.

4 demo songs on this website are for people to hear a clear example of the direction I have gone as a solo artist. I have goals of recording one Single song at a time until I have collected enough material to release my first EP. This is just the beginning of me becoming my most authentic self. This is my story & I am sticking to it.

Everett's Art Walk Summer of 2024

Artisan Bookstore and Coffee's Multimedia Highlighted Artist

Every month Everett has a art walk on the third Thursday of the month. Several gallery venues participate. All stops are within walking distance from one another in the historic district.

My Multimedia art work were highlighted all Summer of 2024 |

• Luxury Brand Hand Bags, Jackets, Hats, Shoes, Skirts, and Pants all customized (currently accepting commissions)

• Multiple different mediums to achieve Christi's Showcase

• Marilyn Monroe Pop Culture Showcased multiple different mediums

• Collection of Jackets, Luxury Handbags, Wardrobe, Shoes, all up cycled & designed by hand

What Would Dolly Do?

Something I Ask Myself Daily

As I adjust to my new life and try to get comfortable with being displaced and unhoused since August of last year, I tell myself that I am training myself how to be comfortable while on tour. I ask myself daily, "What would Dolly do?"

In 1959, introduced by Johnny Cash, 13-year-old Dolly Parton makes her Grand Ole Opry debut singing George Jones' "You Gotta Be My Baby." She receives three encores.

With a career spanning over fifty years, Parton has been described as a "country legend" and has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Parton's music includes Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)-certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards. She has had 25 singles reach no. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist (tied with Reba McEntire). She has 44 career Top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years. She has composed over 3,000 songs, including "I Will Always Love You" (a two-time U.S. country chart-topper, and an international hit for Whitney Houston), "Jolene", "Coat of Many Colors", and "9 to 5". As an actress, she has starred in films including 9 to 5 (1980) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), for which she earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress, and Rhinestone (1984), Steel Magnolias (1989), Straight Talk (1992) and Joyful Noise (2012).

She has received 11 Grammy Awards out of 50 nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award; ten Country Music Association Awards, including Entertainer of the Year and is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award; five Academy of Country Music Awards, also including Entertainer of the Year; four People's Choice Awards; and three American Music Awards. She is also in a select group to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards. In 1999, Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2005, she received the National Medal of Arts and in 2022, she was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a nomination she had initially declined but ultimately accepted, and was subsequently inducted.

Outside of her work in the music industry, she also co-owns The Dollywood Company, which manages a number of entertainment venues including the Dollywood theme park, the Splash Country water park, and a number of dinner theatre venues such as The Dolly Parton Stampede and Pirates Voyage. She has founded a number of charitable and philanthropic organizations, chief among them is the Dollywood Foundation, which manages a number of projects to bring education and poverty relief to East Tennessee where she grew up.

My Influences #1 Prince

Music is a significant part of my existence. I believe it to be as essential to my survival as a major organ like my heart or lungs. I need it to live.

My first love was Prince. Purple Rain was released in in June of 1984. I turned 5 years old the following month and my aunt Jamie gave me my first vinyl record. My aunt and I already bopped around dancing to Prince and his songs Controversy (1981) and his jam 1999 (1982) before the LP was released as the soundtrack to a semi-autobiography and prophecy of…

My Art + My Mental Health

Have you ever felt like something inside of you is threatening your life to get out of you? Do you feel like there are dark things inside of your body that need to find somewhere else to live?

I can relate to all of that. I swear that the motivation for me to create music, art, write, or perform all comes from me giving things that are inside of me somewhere else to live. I feel like I carry a lot of traumas inside. I don't want it to manifest into illness. I work on giving the ugliest parts of me somewhere…

BrodieNation Music Festival

In beautiful Carnation, WA along the Tolt River you will find one of the greatest music experiences of a lifetime. Voted Best of the 425 in 2024 BrodieNation Music Festival is by far a cut above the rest. Two stages filled will high caliber talent on a property that is something to the likes of Alice in Wonderland and Fern Gully. There are twinkle light that aluminate the paths to all points of interest; both stages, the camping spaces, the river, the community area, and of course to the bathrooms.

This…

My Equipment

First and foremost, I play these instruments to support my vocal performance. I like to keep it simple and strip down the songs that I sing, to allow my talent to authentically shine. I am a fan of old school blues and perform with passion and spirit.

I have an old soul, deep roots and a set of pipes. I play a 4-string cigar box guitar custom made for me for my 40th birthday in 2019 by Arnie of Artful Axes in Southern Washington State. I plug into a tiny battery-operated Honey Tone amp for busking and a…

Q: How did you learn about a Cigar Box Guitar

Back in the Spring of 2016 our friend Fog said to me, “Christi, you could fart on a snare drum and sing at the same time and the people would listen to you. What if I made you a cigar box guitar, would you learn how to play it so you can simply support that amazing voice of yours? Because it is a custom instrument you don't have to be classically trained or be any good at playing guitar, you just need to have something to support your vocal performances. You don't need anyone else to play music with you.…