Liv Greene

About Liv

"Unassumingly charming with a velvety voice… she envelops a forlorn loneliness that’s at once poignant and crushing." - American Songwriter.

Award-winning singer/songwriter, guitarist, educator and producer, Liv Greene has been processing the world around her through songs since she was 12 years old. Inspired by the records played in her childhood home in Washington D.C.—powerhouse women of song like Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, and Ella Fitzgerald—Greene taught herself her first guitar chords by way of covering her favorite artists, and immediately fell in love with the craft.

In high school, Greene honed her writing skills in the woods of northern Michigan, studying songwriting at Interlochen Arts Academy for her senior year and graduating with a Fine Arts Award in songwriting. In college, Greene made her way up to Boston to study contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory, a program that has fostered powerhouse roots musicians like Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan. While in Boston, Greene's learning extended beyond NEC, as she found herself immersed in the New England folk scene, working at historic folk venue Club Passim, waitressing, performing, and teaching songwriting in their school of music.

Now based in Nashville, Greene enjoys touring, co-writing, and teaching music lessons and can be found lending her talents as a guitarist, backing vocalist, and banjo player to fellow local artists Olivia Barton, Brennan Wedl, Melanie MacLaren, Jack Schneider, and many others. In the past year, Greene finished up work on her first self-produced, full-length album, made in collaboration with engineer Matt Andrews (Gillian Welch) and recorded live to tape at Woodland Studios in East Nashville. The record is due out fall of 2024 on Free Dirt Records.

To learn more about Greene's work, you can visit her website.

This will be my third summer teaching songwriting at Interlochen, and every year, I am amazed by how much our students grow in just three short weeks. I believe my main role as their instructor is to provide students a safe, inspiring space to take creative risks and grow, as well as introduce them to new tools and frameworks (i.e. music theory, song structure) to help them along the way.