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Shannon Lay

Shannon Lay is bright and warm, both in her physical appearance and in the energy of her presence, and I am drawn to her like a magpie is to shiny. As soft and melancholy as her music is – wide open spaces sparsely hung with haunting and unusual finger-picked magic – in person, the 27-year-old singer-songwriter is all enthusiastic effervescence. As she tells me her story, one full of happy accidents and flows followed, Lay’s flame-red hair flicks back and forth and her slate blue eyes crinkle along with its beats. She’s rhythmic even in recounting. Though she didn’t pick up an instrument until she was 13, Lay says she always sang. “I remember just running around the playground, singing about everything. I’ve always loved it. I think it’s like a natural occurrence.” Natural occurrences are Lay’s guiding principle it seems. She grew up a surfer babe in Redondo Beach, the seaside town south of LAX, “bikini strings at school,” listening to X and the Velvet Underground, but sought out guitar only after she stopped playing soccer and needed a

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