Ellen Froese

2024-10-24 20:00 2024-10-24 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Ellen Froese

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36484

In-person event

Ellen Froese’s is bringing her unique musical take on folk music to the NAC’s Fourth Stage! Despite sadness underpinning the album's creation, due to Froese’s friend and recording engineer passing away during the making of For Each Flower Growing, Froese was lucky to find a wonderful creative foil in Sheepdogs' Sam Corbett, helping her reimagine her conception of what “folk music” can be. With the addition of drum machines, synths, and more intricate vocal...

Read more

Fourth Stage,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
Thu, October 24, 2024
8 PM EDT
Ellen Froese looking back at the camera in front of a microphone
Music Pop Folk
Ellen Froese looking back at the camera in front of a microphone
  • In-person event

Ellen Froese’s is bringing her unique musical take on folk music to the NAC’s Fourth Stage!

Despite sadness underpinning the album's creation, due to Froese’s friend and recording engineer passing away during the making of For Each Flower Growing, Froese was lucky to find a wonderful creative foil in Sheepdogs' Sam Corbett, helping her reimagine her conception of what “folk music” can be. With the addition of drum machines, synths, and more intricate vocal production techniques, Froese reflects that “folk music can be anything I want it to be, I don’t have to be stuck in an antiquated mindset to hold strong musical ties to the past”.

And the results of that mindset are stellar; the album foregrounds the singer's lilting, ethereal vocals atop right-in-the-pocket, pillow-y drumming, melodic bass lines, ripples of Hammond organ layers, and – for the headphone listener – a bevvy of expertly-placed sonic details tucked into the margins.