Amanda Bridges

BIOGRAPHY & PURPOSE
Amanda Bridges is a songwriter and musician based out of Buffalo, NY with a mission of creating safe spaces for people to heal, connect and expand in love through music and honest community connection. Amanda is devoted to inspiring healing and reducing stigmas around mental health awareness, substance use awareness and suicide prevention.

Through a blend of mystical melodies in the style of folk, storytelling, guided experiences and community connection we will journey through an emotionally cleansing experience and open doors for
higher soul alignment and embodiment of unconditional love. 
You belong.

Amanda is also the founder of Ripple Effect Wellness Retreat, workshop facilitator and a Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA).
 
MUSIC BACKGROUND
Since age 12 Amanda has been writing original music, spending all of grade school from 4th through 12th grade studying piano privately and oboe privately as well as in school band and orchestra. Extra-curricular orchestral groups were Southtowns Youth Orchestra, Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra, New York State Summer of Orchestral Studies in Saratoga Springs and American Music Abroad. Amanda graduated from SUNY Fredonia in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in applied music and has since been expanding her music career performing her original music and offering music-focused workshops.

All of Amanda's workshops, performances and motivational speaking are focused on self-healing and development of an elevated understanding that we are all worthy of embracing ourselves with love and nurture. To develop an intentional embodiment of compassion towards oneself and others is Amanda's passion, which she intentionally shares with others in every event she is a part of or creates.

Amanda will be releasing her original song "Inspire Your Heart Fire" on February 14, 2026.

Amanda Bridges has performed at various festivals such as Pyro Eclipse and Pyro Music and Arts Festival, Moon Bloom Music & Wellness Retreat in Oneida, NY, Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival and Music Is Art Festival in Buffalo, NY, SOULVATION '23 Festival 2023 in Ohio, Willow Springs Fall UP Festival in IL and more. She is curating her first wellness retreat which will have holistic healing ceremonies, workshops and live music. Ripple Effect WEllness Retreat will be held the weekend of July 19-21, 2024 in Freedom, NY. Amanda has also performed at various festivals such as Lions Gate Family Gathering and Spirit Kindred Women's Gathering (Both in in Ithaca, NY), Mass N' Tha Grass (Altoona, PA) and much more!