Ellis Delaney
is an open-hearted
folk singer
from Minneapolis.
The new album, Ordinary Love, is available now.
“Ellis' concerts are experiences unlike nearly all live-music performances I've attended. Ellis' songcraft, musicality, delivery, and stories behind the music engage at a depth that is disarming. The evening always seems to flow with laughter at the absurdity of life to an open invitation to make the world a better place than we found it, and damn if it doesn't feel possible by the time we are hugging our goodbyes.” -— Joe Werne, Little Tree Acoustic House Concerts
Spreading joy is what singer/songwriter Ellis Delaney (formerly known as “Ellis”) does best, and it permeates throughout the most recent album Ordinary Love. Celebrating the beauty in everyday living, the album couldn’t come at a better time. Even amidst loss, climate change, division, painful political rhetoric, and gun violence, Ellis finds joy and meaning from family, community connection and ordinary life.
Ordinary Love | Ellis Delaney
Released worldwide on June 4, 2020, Ordinary Love debuted in the #2 spot the FolkDJ Chart and landed #6 on NACC's Top 30 Folk Album Charts!
Spreading joy is what singer/songwriter Ellis Delaney (formerly known as “Ellis”) does best, and it permeates throughout the 2020 album Ordinary Love. Celebrating the beauty in everyday living, the album is still uplifting and relevant. Even amidst illness, loss, climate change, painful political rhetoric, and gun violence, Ellis orients towards joy and meaning connected to family, community, and steadying messages grounded in ordinary life.
Says Ellis, “My hope for this record is that it both inspires a lighter heart while also expressing and connecting to the gravity of this moment in our human history. Can we greet our lives, each other, and even the news every day with ordinary love?"
The answer is a resounding yes. Recorded at Wild Sound Studio in Minneapolis and engineered by Steve Kaul, the album was a labor of love, bringing together friends and musicians from the Twin Cities community that Ellis has been such an integral part of for the last 20 years.
Sounding anything but ordinary, this album is both timeless and still timely--it is the music we need now, more than ever.
“This is no ordinary time. But I believe there is an abundance of ordinary, everyday love.”
Ellis Delaney