Ava Mendoza

Ava Mendoza is an American guitarist, born in Miami in 1983 and raised in Southern California. She trained in classical guitar as a teenager at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, then studied with Fred Frith at Mills College in Oakland. Her playing draws on folk blues and Americana fingerpicking as well as on free improvisation, punk and noise rock. After years on the Oakland scene she moved to Brooklyn in 2013. Mendoza released the solo record Shadow Stories on Resipiscent in 2010.