Ollella
Ollella’s career as a musician started early, when she sang before she could talk. Trained as a classical cellist since the age of nine, the Seattle indie-folk musician merges her technical background with authoritative vocals, live-looping, and improvisation. Described as “really outstanding” by NPR Music’s Bob Boilen and “so tastefully done” by Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast), Ollella blends the acoustic with the contemporary, folk with pop, and tenacity with softness, pulling on influences such as Feist, Cat Power, and Jesca Hoop. Her playing has been featured in films screened at Film Festivals such as Sundance and Aspen Film Fest, on recordings with others including Grammy-winning artist Peter Kater, and has shared the stage with popular Americana acts such as the Shook Twins and Rising Appalachia. She finds herself drawn to music because it unlocks a particularly organic flavor of humanity – one that fits the type of world she believes in.
Gillian Grogan
Gillian Grogan is an independent singer and songwriter currently based in Sonoma County, California. Tickled strings and floating vocals, hammered riffs and belted requests—Gillian’s music is untamed and untethered to any genre. She’s singing stories where Americana meets folk and steeps into soul, where finger picking builds and swells and gets slapped back to silence. The Woven Collective calls it “an unforgiving tuggin’ at your roots, no matter where you come from, her lyrics wash over you like gentle reminders of another life you haven’t had yet.” She calls it full-bodied folk. “It’s definitely got a folk foundation, but then it’s also busting at the seams sometimes… it’s just curvy like that.” Gillian released the Live at Earthtones Audio EP this past August and anticipates the first singles off her debut record to release this fall. Pairs well with massive vistas, bustling gardens, light mischief, hope and driving alone.
Elena Lambertson is a singer/songwriter residing in San Francisco. Growing up around Santa Cruz, she spent a lot of time echoing her tunes off of redwood canopies and sitting at the shores of the Pacific, crafting her inner reflections into storytelling songs. When she performs, her instrumentation changes regularly between acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, ukulele and harmonica. The result is reminiscent of the vintage, ramblin’ cowgirl style of Gillian Welch blended with a sparse, reverb-drenched angst like that of Cat Power. At 20 years old, armed with one microphone and Garageband, Elena began recording on her own. Day by day she recorded at her writing desk overlooking green-hued, fog-cloaked meadows. After a couple months she self-produced her first 3 song EP aptly named The Aptos Sessions after her hometown, where it was recorded. She released the songs to SoundCloud while watching an airport sunrise, setting off to backpack through Europe where she would play her music across several countries before settling into the lively music scene of Haight Ashbury.
Recommended if you like: Feist, Haley Heynderickx, Cat Power, Brandi Carlile, Gillian Welch
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The Lost Church Santa Rosa
576 Ross Street
- Santa Rosa
Price: $15.00