ELIZABETH WILLS & BAND

Texas-based singer-songwriter and Americana artist Elizabeth Wills has a voice that Dallas Morning News compared to “female singer/songwriter greats such as Carly Simon, Shawn Colvin, and Sarah McLachlan.” Her songs – real and riveting – keep listeners engaged start to finish.

In her latest studio project, Marigolds From Ashes, Wills is featured on lead vocalist, piano and guitar. Producer and close friend, renown musician Mike Daane helped Wills articulate her vision for the album and took her music and songs to new levels.

“The culmination of every single thought, prayer, action, and word has the potential for so much power, light, or dark. This project was a coming together of light, love, the highest intentions, and the greatest good. None of it would have happened without each of those points of light, coming from all directions, lighting the way.”

Influenced by writer-artists Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and their contemporaries, Wills bases songs in honesty, goodness, and vulnerability. Fans relate, and the industry has taken notice as well. Wills is a past winner of the Dallas, Texas-based B.W. Stevenson Songwriting Competition and was a finalist in the New Folk Competition (Kerrville Folk Festival).

With her band and as a solo artist, Wills has played notable festivals like ACL, South by Southwest, Kerrville Folk Festival, Austin City Limits Festival, Southwest Regional Folk Alliance, The Backyard and more. She enjoys regular airplay on college radio stations across the country and NPR affiliates in Austin, Dallas, and Fort Worth, and she has guested on the nationally syndicated radio show "What D’ya Know."

Wills’ present touring band includes herself on keys, guitar, and Irish tin whistle; Mike Daane on bass; Sam Swank on guitar; Alex Hahn on drums; and Kristin DeWitt (backing vocals).

AND SHE IS A PAST WINNER OF THE PRESTIGIOUS BW STEVENSON MEMORIAL SINGER SONGWRITER COMPETITION