From the gently rolling plains of the Midwest to windswept coastlines of Aotearoa, Sig Wilder has spent a lifetime chasing something beyond his reach, but not beyond his sight. Together with Mads Taylor (Tahini Bikini), Tessa Dillon (Mystery Waitress) and Sofia Machray, Sig Wilder & Friends have become fixtures of Wellington’s music community. Sig Wilder is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. The leader of the Sig Wilder & Friends band, his songcraft - melancholic, existential and introspective - feels like a well-worn handwritten journal of lived experiences rendered through metaphor, poetic prose, and the stylistic conventions of folk, alt-country, ambient and late-night heartbreak radio.