Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Wendy Reid and Lulu

48 Hills editors and writers are highlighting their favorite people and things of 2025. Vote now for your own favorites in our 51st Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll! And join us October 22, 6pm-9pm, at El Rio for the 48 Hills Annual Community Gala to party with the winners and celebrate the independent spirit of the Bay Area.

Musicians and co-composers Wendy Reid and Lulu have lived and worked collaboratively for nearly two decades. It is impossible, and probably unimportant, to determine which of the two is the more dynamic performer. Reid is a gifted, classically-trained violinist whose extensive portfolio of work veers from classical music’s realm into contemporary new music. Lulu is an intuitive, improvisational, occasionally mercurial, and consistently mesmerizing vocalist who happens t