Liz Ryder is a British-American singer-songwriter, sound artist, and composer who first learned traditional songs from the fertile earth of the English and Welsh countryside where she grew up. She has performed her way from Shropshire to Kent, and New York to San Francisco, finally landing amongst the golden hills of the Sacramento Valley, where she now resides. For the last 25 years, Liz has been delighting audiences at folk festivals, clubs, and theatres with her intricate vocals, fingerstyle guitar and banjo, and occasional pluck on lever harp or Celtic bouzouki. In 2002, she was a BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards Finalist–fRoots Magazine dubbed her “the next in the Kate Rusby/Bill Jones Continuum.” She has since released 3 more albums and 4 EPs, been a Telluride Troubadour, and Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Finalist, performed at Sidmouth, Broadstairs, the San Francisco Folk Festival, and Sacramento World Music Festival, and opened for artists including Richard Thompson and Eric Taylor, amongst others. With music rooted in tradition but rendered with a fresh, modern approach, Liz blends the voices and landscapes of the past with experiences of the present. With her “vocals and lyrics which mesmerize, she holds the rapt attention of the audience whenever she plays”–Nusi Dekker
