Ellie Gowers + Ochre

0	BRIGHTON: The Folklore Rooms
P	Sunday 1st October, 2023
N	7:00pm

BRIGHTON: The Folklore Rooms

Sunday 1st October, 2023

7:00pm

Event information

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

Doors 7pm
Music from 7.30pm

Ellie is a 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.

Support from Ochre
Ochre is the solo project and natural musical progression & maturing of singer/songwriter, Charlotte Lloyd-Butler. Germinating from previous expressions of emotional pangs & impassioned pains, Ochre is a ?vessel for the exploration of the construction of self?, whilst acting as a grace-giving approach to curiously exploring the processing and teachings of life?s multifarious encounters. After embracing the plentiful hedonistic gifts that Brighton offers, Charlotte digests the noise of living and presents a swirling introspective take that culminates in a sonic blend of atmospheric harmonies and a textural weave of guitars. Glorious golden hour warmth emits from nods to formative acoustic sounds, refined from time creating music in Falmouth whilst studying. Ochre contemplates the complexity of the human reaction with an intimacy and fragility that warmly supports as listeners are compelled to gaze inwards.

elliegowersmusic.com