Journey by Gabrielle Louise

Back in Colorado, she often tours solo or with acclaimed French guitarist, Aurelien Budynek.

Gabrielle has been performing on the stage since a very young age, having grown up in a musical family. Her father, Paul Sadler III, began touring as lead guitarist for country music star Michael Martin Murphy when Gabrielle was eight. A few years later, Gabrielle was performing at festivals and venues such as the Michael Martin Murphy Cowboy Gathering and the renowned Black Rose Acoustic Society, often with the accompaniment of her mother, father and three siblings.

In 2005 Gabrielle released her first solo EP, Amber and Black. In 2006 she released her full-length debut album, Journey ,a genre-bending mix of folk/pop, roots, jazz, and alt-country that displays an emotional depth well beyond her age. Gabrielle Louise draws upon her nomadic upbringing in a family that moved constantly from one small Western town to the next. Journey is worldly in flavor, featuring eclectic instruments such as the Argentinean accordion and the Scottish harp. It is as versatile and enigmatic as she is, breaking away from an industry that yearns to peg down it’s performers.

The twenty-one-year-old musician is noted for her poignant lyrics and sense of melody. Her songwriting has impressed fans and critics alike, becoming a two-time finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting contest, and winner of the Jack Maher Songwriting Award.

Gabrielle is bent on bringing greater substance to popular music. She is a buoyant and stunning performer; but that's only the beginning. Anyone who listens to Gabrielle Louise will notice she has an old soul, a traveler's spirit, and a voice as clear as a Rocky Mountain morning.

"Gabrielle Louise is a deceiving package. Though young and beautiful, the guitar-playing singer/songwriter sounds like an older woman. Her pop/country blend is distinctly adult-contemporary in flavor and boasts mature lyrics. Lovers of folk music will appreciate Louise's strong voice, which she uses with equal success on stunning high notes and rumbling lows." (The Gazette, Colorado Springs, CO)

"...Louise embraced city living and her Berklee education by recruiting the most diverse band I've ever seen. Her group, The Acoustics, is a sundry tapestry of some of Berklee's best international student musicians; there is no mistaking their chemistry and enjoyment when playing Louise's well crafted acoustic pop...They are quickly becoming one of Berklee's best acoustic rock acts and should be a Boston favorite in no time." (INsite Magazine, Boston, MA)

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