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We're delighted to welcome the fabulous ELLIE GOWERS back to West Yorkshire, this time performing in the impressive Coopers function room in Guiseley.

Ellie is a nationally-acclaimed songwriter and guitarist from Warwickshire. What grew from a childhood love of literature and traditional folk song is a carefully crafted and emotionally mature catalogue of original material, with references to artists including Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake.

Bringing to the stage a strong voice full of expression and maturity, her songs are written with sociological, ecological, and personal themes in mind. These songs at times are sensitive and tender, but are not without the fiery and darker discourse that have labelled Ellie as dynamic and one to watch.

Towards the end of 2022, her highly anticipated debut album Dwelling by the Weir was released. An album that weaves the past, present, and future together. It is an exploration of the folklore, stories, and people that made her pastoral home county of Warwickshire what it is today.

With success already from the single release Against the Tide and a TEDx Talk that followed, Ellie entered 2021 with a brand new EP Parting Breath, The EP pays homage to Robert Burns? Auld Lang Syne, and received rave reviews and extensive radio play.

In 2022, Ellie was involved in the composing of music for a BBC Radio 3 production in March, and toured the UK as Blair Dunlop?s special guest on his 20 date UK spring tour. Her highly anticipated debut album Dwelling by the Weir was released in September alongside a successful UK launch tour.

Ellie can also be found nestled in ?Birmingham?s premier folk supergroup?, Filkin?s Ensemble. Forged at the end of 2020 after a successful video release of their ?Arthur McBride? rendition, this folk-meets-classical ensemble are set for an exciting 2023.

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?Full of delicacy, precision and gentle delight?
The Guardian

?An affectionate paean to her home country but one with themes and stories that will strike resonances wherever your roots may have formed?
Folk Radio UK

?Her voice is full of warmth and intimacy, and when it really soars you quickly find yourself swept away with it.?
FATEA

?A strong, crystal clear voice...an act to watch?
Bristol 24/7

Links:

elliegowersmusic.com
facebook.com/elliegowersmusic
twitter.com/ellie_gowers
instagram.com/elliegowersmusic
youtube.com/c/elliegowers


For this gig, the excellent Leeds-based CHRIS BRAIN provides support for Ellie. Chris emerged out of Leeds? vibrant folk scene in 2022 with his debut, critically acclaimed and widely distributed album, Bound to Rise, reaching #22 in the UK Folk Charts.

His much-anticipated second album (Oct 6th ?23), Steady Away, moves inward and takes on a more self-reflective quality, whilst retaining glimmers of soaring figures and pastoral imagery. Brain?s distinctive warm vocal and finger-picked guitar style are sustained alongside expansive strings and delicate piano arrangements, taking shape through evolving and introspective impressions on tenderness, loss, pain and awe in nature.

https://chrisbrainmusic.com/

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4-6 Otley Road,

Guiseley,

West Yorkshire,

England,

LS20 8AH.