Schneider’s latest single a celebration of women

In the lead-up to her new album release Tender, Melinda Schneider celebrates the strength, spirit and significance of women in her latest moving single, The Woman.

Although written more than 20 years ago with good friend and Nashville songwriter Angela Kaset, The Woman is resonating now more than ever.

“I’ve had this up my sleeve for a long time and have been saving it for the right project and Tender is definitely the right album for this song,” Schneider said.

“Angela Kaset, who also wrote Something in Red for Lorrie Morgan, is a spiritual, nurturing soul.

“I have written some very emotional songs with Angela and they’re always from the heart when I work with her; looking back our collaborations(they) are the ones that move people to tears.

“We share a love of dogs and justice, and we have a real soul connection.”

The Central Coast singer-songwriter and multi-Golden Guitar winner said she hoped The Woman validated women and encouraged men to celebrate the women in their lives.

Schneider will be performing the songs in the Tender tour at Hardys Bay Community Church on October 4, where she will also be exhibiting her latest paintings.

The art exhibition is on October 4 and 5 between 10am and 5pm.

“In the last decade of women’s empowerment, it’s been women fighting for women, but we also need the good men to stand up and speak up against the abuse women endure every day of the week in Australia and value us as much as we’re working to value ourselves,” she said.

“I’m hoping this song will be a little opportunity for men to be able to tap into the gratitude I know they have for the women in their lives, their mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and all the amazing women they have around them and I want women to remember how incredible they are when they hear my song.”

The Woman, released on September 19, is the third single before Schneider’s album Tender lands on February 5 alongside the title track as the next single.

“It’s exciting to be sharing new music in 2025,” she said.

“I’m really happy with the way this album sounds, very proud of the songs; they really are some of the best songs I’ve ever written and I can’t wait for people to hear them and be moved by them.”

Schneider began painting during COVID and, like singing and songwriting, found visual art to be another way to communicate and seek freedom through expression.

Based on the Bouddi Peninsula, Schneider said she drew her inspiration from the fauna, flora and ancient spirituality of the area, her home.

For her latest exhibition, the musical composition came first, then the visual works.

“I created the album Tender and developed 12 original paintings representing the 12 songs from the album,” she said.