lady jane (esperanza friel) grew up in the western mass area and spent most of high school recording songs on a tape recorder in her bedroom. after graduating from northampton high in 2009 she continued that tradition at marlboro college in vermont, writing music in her dorm room and occasionally playing songs for friends. after college, she started to play house shows and living rooms. her work from that time can be found on her bandcamp at ladyjane.bandcamp.com. since then, she has opened for soccer mommy at gateway city arts in holyoke mass, , toured up and down the east coast and in may of 2019 will be playing the music and art festival waking windows in winooski vermont . in the fall of 2018, she recorded her first studio album at sleepercave records in williamsburg mass. the seven tracks that make up "soft waltz" are from the last two years of heartbreak and euphoria.
she is currently working on her next full length album.