Gabrielle Louise

Gabrielle Louise is a Boston-based artist with a free spirit and a big mouth! Her songs are rooted in folk and country while her melody and delivery show strong pop sensibilities. Her sound has the earthy feel of Joni Mitchell, and her performances the emotion and musical adventurism of Martin Sexton. She is at one moment folkie and ethereal, the next moment a smoky jazz chanteuse. Her clear, angelic voice draws comparisons to contemporary musicians such as Jewel and Kathleen Edwards, while her songwriting is reminiscent of a young Paul Simon.

Raised in a small town in the Colorado Rockies, Gabrielle made her way to Boston in 2004 to study music professionally. The stark differences between her country life in the West coast and her cosmopolitan life on the East coast has offered a great deal of inspiration to her. While in Boston, Gabrielle performs both solo and with the backing of The Acoustics, a rhythm section comprised of three musicians from Buenos Aires. 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 its 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.