What happens when you mix forty strings, a meadowlark, a basket of garden vegetables, and a cup of warm tea with a shot of honey? Most likely you’d end up with a young imaginative girl from the mountains of California named Kelsea Little, and her faithful sidekick Neil. By the way, Neil is a five foot-tall harp.
Kelsea began taking harp lessons around the corner from her childhood home at just 8 years old. She moved through school excelling in literary and musical studies, and her interests eventually gravitated toward songwriting. After a successful three year run with her first band, The Wrong Trousers of YouTube fame, she has recently emerged onto the indie folk scene as a solo artist and is making quite an impression already.
While often compared to Regina Spektor and Joanna Newsom, Kelsea has a style all her own. With honest, enticing lyrics and an ear for evocative melodies, her music is relatable and yet excitingly brand new at the same time. Even more enchanting than her songs is her stage presence. She speaks so colloquially with each new audience that, after seeing her live, you may have the strange feeling that you just made a new best friend. And if you told her, she’d probably oblige.
In 2010, Kelsea released a self-recorded album, Art Vs. Craft, a whimsical collection of experimental recordings from her early years of songwriting. She is currently in the studio working with a new backing band, the Red Riding Hoods, on her first professionally recorded full-length LP, Personal Myth, which is slated to come out in October 2011. Personal Myth, with its much fuller sound, reflects Kelsea’s maturation as a musician, but the unique way in which she views the world will certainly still shine through each track.
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