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Elisabeth is a folk vocalist and songwriter. She's released one homemade demo album, Country of Origin. It includes songs inspired by the Halifax Explosion of 1917, the martyrdom of Joan of Arc and the Futurist movement, among other bits and pieces.
She also writes music for artists who perform in theatre, puppetry, art and magic.
In addition to her own songs, Elisabeth has performed classical, bluegrass, and traditional folk music, and co-formed a folk noir band called House & Bird (2007-08) who put out a 5-song EP, what do words know. She has performed as lead vocalist in several performance art pieces in venues such as The Chicago Cultural Center and Chicago’s Links Hall. From 06-07 she was a guest vocalist for many live shows and on the debut album of Chicago-based eco-bluegrass group The Giving Tree Band. In 2008 she co-wrote and performed an historically-based musical, A Soldier Of Three Wars at the Peter Jones Gallery.
Her influences include Andrew Bird, Fleet Foxes, Hans Zimmer, Chris Bathgate, Bob Dylan, Björk, John Williams, Yann Tierson, Sandy Denny, Leonard Cohen, Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, Yma Sumac, M. Ward, Great Lake Swimmers, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Billie Holiday, Iron & Wine, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, Cloud Cult, Sufjan Stevens, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy,
and her very talented friends:
Vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Krystee Wylder, physical theatre performer & singer/songwriter, Sandro Garibashvili, Will and his band Teenage Rage, Vocalist/songwriter/pianist Jessica Fogle.
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