Mia Friedman is a fiddler, singer, banjo player, composer and educator. She is largely influenced by American roots music and old-time Appalachian traditions, and blends this with contemporary music in her compositions. Mia plays with many projects that span a wide range of styles: Hollow Deck—a duo of tape collage, vocals, and woodwinds, a solo project — original and tradition folk music with sparse and strange arrangements, and Ari & Mia —an Americana band with her sister. The latter has toured all over the US, Canada and Australia. Their previous three albums—”Out of Stone,” "Land on Shore," and "Unruly Heart"—ranked high on the national folk radio charts.

Mia currently teaches strings in a school district in Western MA. She graduated from New England Conservatory in 2012 where she studied with Anthony Coleman, Carla Kihlstedt, and Hankus Netsky. 

Her song “Across the Water” won the 2010 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the folk category, and she was the 2006 New Hampshire Highland Games Scottish Fiddle Champion.