Liz Goodyear

Liz can’t go a day without music. She loves going to shows, working with festivals, and “playing” instruments, even though she’s at a first-grade level for about everything she plays.

For her day job, Liz runs a live-music production and promotion company called Live Goods Music. She mainly focuses on the under-tapped area north of NYC, on her quest to bring good music to the ‘burbs, so that she doesn’t always have to schlep down to the city for a show.

Professionally, Liz cut her teeth in marketing, then moved to film and video production. As an in-house producer at an international marketing agency, she produced content for Mercedes-Benz, Cigna, KPMG, the BBC, ABC, and OWN, among others. A couple producer highlights include a festival-winning feature documentary, and successfully shooting two music videos in one day for Warner Bros Records.

First River started as a dream to bring live music back in a big way, and to do it in her backyard. Liz is the festival’s Executive Producer and Chief Playlist Officer. (Yes, Dindas, a playlist can be 139 hours long.)

Liz drags her family – including her three young kids – to the Newport Folk Festival every year, and hopes to build something as legendary one day.