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my music is about listening
βto myself, to others, and to the hidden frequencies that shape our lives. When the harp touches my body, I touch something deeper. When the strings move, I am moved to sing. To sing songs hiding just below the surface, songs that had to be felt before they could be sung.
Each show is a unique dance between my written material and moments of inspired listening. I regard every song as an evolving truth, using live tapestries of voice, percussion, loops and soundscapes to express the soul of each song as it wishes to be heard in that particular moment.
I show up not to perform, but to be presentβto share, to listen, to offer songs as invitations to connect with the deepest parts of ourselves and each other.
QUICK GLIMPSE
DEEPER DIVE
Knock, Knock
Knock Knock is an avant-pop visual album that explores themes of recovery, spiritual reflection, defeat and compassion. Composed, recorded, and produced by Elizabeth Owens.
Still Coming of Age
Still Coming of Age is a close-up and intimate revisiting of the songs from Coming of Age, reworked for harp, piano, and voice.
Coming of Age
Coming of Age is a folk-rock fairytale rooted in questions of personal responsibility, compassion, and breaking through social and emotional barriers.
PRESS MATERIALS
Short Bio:
Elizabeth Owens (she/they) is a harpist/multi-instrumentalist and songwriter whose music feels like stepping into a dreamβone where folk and classical roots twist into tendrils of art rock, jazz, Latin, and experimental pop. Performing with harp, percussion, and a voice as gentle as it is unflinching, their music isnβt about breaking genresβitβs about dissolving borders, guiding listeners into a space where sound becomes a mirror for what it means to be human.
Long Bio:
(Eli)zabeth Owens is an avant-garde music producer, harpist, multimedia artist and educator based in Richmond, VA. After graduating college with dual degrees in Photo/Film and Psychology in 2015, they rekindled their passion for music and has devoted the last several years to crafting spiritual experiences through the alchemy of music, experimental video and interactive digital art.
In 2019, Eli was gifted a small 22-string Celtic harp. With their experience in piano, guitar, and voice they were able to teach themselves how to play and from the moment that first chord spilled out, Elizabeth was under it's spell.
Combined with their love of experimental time-based media and background in atmospheric sound design, Owensβ multi-instrumental, mutli-media approach is a genre bending, communal, contemplative experience. Through their vulnerability and expression, the stage becomes a shared practice space inviting the audience to participate in the deep listening, feeling, and expressing the art calls for.
Influences include Holly Herndon, Kate Bush, FKA Twigs, Bjork, Joanna Newsom, and Caroline Polacheck.
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Previous releases included Knock Knock β a three-act visual album about sobriety and what it means to be fully human β and Coming of Age, a folk/rock record about unraveling toxic myths.
For the last five years, Eli has also been passionately pursuing music education, teaching both private lessons and K-12. In what little free time they have, they also help run Grimalkin Records, a nonprofit record label and collective that supports marginalized artists.
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