Susan Peña

Since the age of 12, multi-instrumentalist Susan Peña has been collecting, singing, and accompanying herself on guitar or fiddle, playing songs from the American folk, old-time, and country traditions. For the past four decades, she has performed Mexican, Tex-Mex, and Colombian music with her family band, La Familia Peña-Govea. She retired six years ago after twenty years of teaching high school Spanish, where she made music an important teaching tool. Since then, she has worked part-time as a Teaching Artist for the San Francisco Unified School District’s Mariachi program.