Interviews & Press

Ellen is interviewed by the fine folks at Minneapolis news website Racket! She talks about her forays into digitizing her music, which started as a solo project for Ellen in 2020, during the isolating time of COVID-19, and helped spark the idea of remastering and releasing some of those archival songs.

Racket also talked to Ross Wylde, a young singer-songwriter from California who has become a good friend of Ellen’s and a real booster of her music. Thanks to Ross, the archival project has launched into high gear over the last few months: Besides the two singles we’ve released so far, an entire album of Ellen’s songs is due for release later this year. It’ll be called Go ‘Round Songs.

Read the interview with Ellen and Ross here at this link.

Ellen was featured on the Friday, January 18 local newscast of Minneapolis TV station KARE-11. The interview gave a nice overview of her career as a professor and folksinger, as well as helped get the word out about Ellen’s “long-lost friend”, as the video says: Her missing guitar!

The instrument was a Martin 00-21, and was bought new by Ellen in 1956. It was lost in 2008 after being sold by someone who was lent the guitar (temporarily, Ellen had hoped, but alas, no) as collateral.

Our thanks to Samantha Fischer for the interview. You can check out the whole four-minute segment at KARE-11’s website. The whole thing got started thanks to a post on the website Reddit by our friend Ross Wylde, who is also producing some of her archival music for re-release later this year. (We’ll be posting more on that very soon, including audio of one of the songs—very exciting!)

We believe the guitar is probably in Minneapolis. It has a few identifying marks, as Ross wrote in his original post: “It has her name carved into the soundboard along the brace with the Martin stamp. Its serial number is SN-150342.” If you think you may have any information about it, please let us know!

Making a racket on Racket

Have you seen this guitar?