Biography
and reviews
Ella Spencer was set to be a musician from the day sixties legend and god of Hellfire, Arthur Brown, blessed her in her mother’s womb.
She was born to British-American parents in London but raised in rural Suffolk where her father started the UK’s first Americana music festival. Ella spent her school years studying classical piano and viola but roots musicians were always in and out of the house and their music began to rub off on her. So much so that in her early twenties she decided to focus on the music she had been raised with.
Hanging around the festival and sitting in with the likes of Terra Lightfoot, Andrew Duhon and more recently, Jerry Joseph, she began to develop her own style and venture out on her own. Accompanying herself on guitar, piano and occasionally banjo, her unique voice and distinctive songs have enraptured many at the UK’s Americana hot-spots.
This summer, at the invitation of her musical mentor Jerry Joseph, she flew to Portland, Oregon to join him on a short tour and record new demos.
As Paul Sexton said, after her appearance at The Sound Lounge, “we can’t wait to hear what she does next!”.
What People Are Saying
“I was delighted to invite Ella for her first performance at the Sound Lounge….she was every bit as good as I knew she would be, delivering a multi-instrumental set of striking songs with her engaging personality”
Paul Sexton, journalist, broadcaster, author and patron of the Sound Lounge
“Very promising young country blues singer songwriter…wowed a very enthusiastic audience on her What’s Cookin’ debut”
Ramblin’ Steve, What’s Cookin’
“I first met Ella Spencer when she was a breathless child at Maverick Festival, agog at all the remarkable talents singing on Suffolk’s finest festival’s stages. Now she sings on those very same stages, a confident youth who listened carefully and has gone and written her own distinctive songs. Go Ella!”
Garth Cartwright, journalist, author and broadcaster