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About
Ahna Ell is a songwriter steeped in poetry and wandering. From her teen years hitchhiking across America, to studying in a great books program, and the global travel that shaped her sensitive perspective, Ell has cultivated an earthy and honest voice.
Ell's debut album, Everybody's Gonna Let You Down, is lo-fi bedroom folk that was self recorded in five days. Now, she's on the road bringing the songs to life as often as she can. The show is as vulnerable and intimate as the songs, and it leaves plenty of room for the ambling levity that comes hand in hand with sorrow. Birth, death, pancakes, heartache, Charles Manson, and Pascal’s God shaped hole—Ell mines the ordinary and the exceptional for meaning.
Throughout the 2010s, Ell's previous band, Nashville based Forlorn Strangers, recorded and toured across the country. They were featured in Rolling Stone and Relix magazines. Forlorn Strangers played the IBMAs, Americanafest, and many other prominent festivals and shows, including opening for The Head and the Heart, The Wood Brothers, and Yonder Mountain String Band. Their full length album was recorded with Grammy award winner Sean Sullivan (Sturgill Simpson, Mandolin Orange, The Travelin' McCourys) at John Prine's iconic studio, The Butcher Shoppe.
Ell's debut book is forthcoming—a literary memoir of music, travel, and love. She now lives on the coast, where she enjoys surfing and eating oysters when she's not writing or on the road.
