About Lucy
Lucy is always searching for enchantment. Whether it be through singing her original Americana songs, yodeling her heart out to old country classics, or performing musical theater, her quality of presence consistently brings light and joy to her live performances
Hailing from the golden hills of Northern California, Lucy now resides in New Orleans, where her sense of awe overtakes her just about every day. A folk singer and storyteller at heart, Lucy loves to explore the edges of what the human voice can do. She draws technique from opera training, yodeling, throat singing and beatboxing to give her performances a unique and absurd edge.
She graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Performance Studies from the School of Communication, and while there also studied classical voice and opera at the Bienen School of Music.
Lucy has studied and performed music with international folk ensembles in Delhi, India; Banyoles, Catalonia; and Greensboro, North Carolina. She co-composed the Fox and Beggar Theatre Company's 2025 touring production, Tigre, Tigre!, in which she sang the voice of the principal character, Z. In 2025, Lucy wrote and toured an hour-long musical solo performance, Grasping at Straws, a reflection on her changing relationship to activism amidst the Great Turning.
She released two records in 2025—"Pinto Pals: Yodeling Songbirds", an album with her yodeling duo, The Pinto Pals, as well as "Sweetheart, I'm Here", an EP of original music with collaborators Jackie Rae Daniels and Mikey Marget.
Lucy's work centers around themes of animacy and connection with the more-than-human world. Through her songs, she channels many perspectives distinct from her own, including those of humans and non-humans alike.
bring the light · follow the joy · find the awe
A Letter From the Future:
Dear Lucy,
I’m writing to you from the future, as your granddaughter, to give a little perspective on the importance of the art you are striving to make. You are wondering how to describe your role in this tapestry as best as words can reflect. Let me give you a hand.
You are a 25 year old wanderer, seeker, and artist. Singing was your first language, and it’s been the thing you’ve kept returning to year after year as the throughline of your life. Because you know that the magic you feel when vibrating your body in song attunes you to your environment, and has a unique power to shift energies, bodies, hearts, and minds.
You are a theater-crafter, a storyteller, a bringer of light to the darkened sidelines, the forgotten passages, the abandoned fields, the grotesque animalities. Your work centers joy, absurdity, humor, and passion, and makes audiences smile and shout and spill their milk. For much of your life, you attended to art as a very serious endeavor, but the silliness has crept through incessantly, and you’ve let it become the compass in your ardent passion for making change. Follow the joy.
Another throughline in your work is your spiritual seeking. From Buddhist meditation retreats to attending different church services around the country for the last year, your calling to be close to God has trickled its way into your work. It can be felt through your song lyrics and melodies, approaches to the creative practice, and the primary mission of your live performances: to build connective relationships between humans and the natural world, humans and other humans, and oneself with God.
Your work has emerged through eras and influences of militant activism, environmental and social justice organizing, contemplative practices and spiritual seeking, opera and musical theater, and singer-songwriter folk music. These threads weave their way into where your work currently stands: straddled between worlds of folk-Americana, old country and western swing, and musical storytelling through puppetry, yodeling, and theater.
You are at a precipice: as you take the preparatory stance, you pause to breathe in your God-given gifts of Light (the meaning of your name) and Song, and breathe out the responsibility that comes with them. You pray for guidance along the path of your calling. You feel the hand that’s got your back. You relax and jump.
Love,
Your future granddaughter