PEG Interviews Los Angeles Singer-Songwriter Siena Friend:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CLpxIgo4Tj63Uz9J1pooa
Neon Album link:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0PtNSx8EX7HZZqZifcPCNT
Website:
https://sienafriend.com/index.html
YouTube Videos:
https://youtu.be/PpqEqX6ZggQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwblzEmGqBAcJEc6XO9hloA
About Siena Friend:
Siena Friend is a songwriter, vocalist, and guitar player, riding the line between indie-folk and pop-rock. As a girl growing up in Gold Hill, a small mountain town above Boulder, Colorado, she fell in love with music and songwriting at an early age. She has her parents to thank for exposing her to everyone from Bob Dylan to Liz Phair, and giving her her first guitar at age eight. Influenced by the alternate tunings of Ani Difranco and Joni Mitchell, the pop-y melodies of The Beatles, and the strong storytelling of Nanci Griffith, Siena developed a unique style of songwriting.
As a high school student, Siena was a regular performer at the iconic Penny Lane coffee house in Boulder, and self-recorded and released two full-length albums. Later she was a founding member of several bands which played in the Boulder/Denver music scene, before relocating to Los Angeles in 2015 to pursue filmmaking. In 2017 Siena attended a workshop in Nashville with one of her musical heroes, Jonatha Brooke. This workshop relit the spark of music and led to the creation of all the songs on her latest e.p.
Siena is also an award-winning filmmaker and a visual artist. Her music reflects her diverse passions, acute vision and poetic spirit. Siena’s songs are deeply personal yet playful, with unexpected chord progressions and catchy hooks. They hum with the struggle of being a soul in a body, breathing, feeling, and always searching.
Siena currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
