A M A N D A ’ S S T O R Y

A life crafted
by song.

Amanda is a songwriter, artist, facilitator, community builder, and mother. Her work is rooted in the belief that song can help us meet the thresholds of life with more presence and connection. Over the years, Amanda has brought music to births and deaths, rituals and gatherings, spiritual centers, festivals, recordings, and stages across the West Coast and Europe.

Read her full story HERE

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Artist

Amanda has what is described as an angelic, velvety voice and a gift for writing raw, vulnerable songs that make people feel seen, comforted, and understood.

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Facilitator

Amanda creates spaces of patience, calm, and grace where song becomes soul medicine for grief, transition, and connection.

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Teacher

A warm, nurturing educator, Amanda helps people of all ages find confidence, express their full range, and discover their own creative voices.

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Mother

Amanda’s experience of parenthood and matrescence has created a brave, grounded presence and deepened her art, her empathy, and her way of holding space for others.

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For the Press

Singer-songwriter Amanda West seated outdoors with her acoustic guitar.

AMANDA WEST is a song catcher/writer, ritualist, community leader, mother and ever-evolving human. In a lifetime devoted to music and healing she’s brought song to the thresholds of birth and death, life rituals, community gatherings, spiritual centers, album recordings (9+ ), festivals, and performances throughout the West Coast and parts of Europe. She understands our world to be full of both collapse and possibility, and is passionate about cultivating resilience and hope during this time of collective re-birthing on planet earth.

  • “Beautiful, sensuous, warm, vulnerable."

    Justin Mayer, Sound Engineer, Bear Creek Studios

  • "Startling intimacy, always a vein of humor with lyrical authenticity... a gentleness and melodic subtlety gives Amanda instant entry into our hearts and lets her carry us into heights of delight."

    - Daniel Bittleston, Alliance for Public Waldorf Education

  • "gritty, angelic, raw and real"

    -G. K.