Sydney LeighCarlson is a 22-year-old singer-songwriter in the classic lineage of the art form – featuring acoustic guitar compositions filled with confessional and insightful lyrics of her times, plus personal stories of pain, loss, love and growth sung with a lilting grace of pain and promise. Inspired by Joni Mitchell, Warren Zevon, Phoebe Bridges and Julian Baker, Leigh’s songs explore the human experience and speak of hidden truths and passionate expressions, yet she is also a playful storyteller, using equal measures of humor and irony in her work. Her voice, a whimsical elasticity of sweetness, belies her age and the depth of her songs, and it is in that delicate balance of sultry timbre and emotive phrasing that her music flourishes