"Thoughtful and sensitive. Assured and evocative. Surprisingly potent...It's a hit."
****RnR Magazine
"Esoteric, elusive, steeped in the poetic. Kindred spirit to 'Spell Songs'. A truly intoxicating debut."
Fatea
"Raw, honest songwriting. You know when you can feel that powerful emotion and passion coming through music? I got that" BBC Introducing
"A folk sound both grounded and light-footed, that welcomes with warmth, insight and a soul-shuddering range of vocals.
The music envelopes in easy excellence"
Arts Culture Magazine
Known for agile, evocative vocals, poetic lyricism and enchanting, heartfelt live presence, contemporary folk singer-songwriter, Holly Ebony’s sound is heathery sweet & peaty raw as the Dartmoor landscape she hails from.
Remembering Scottish folklore and Mòd singing ancestors; steeped in the broad vinyl collection of her childhood and raised on fireside harmonising; Holly's education has been experiential and there’s a natural, unaffected ease to her musicality. Likened to Sandy Denny, Joan Armatrading, Joni Mitchell,
Tracy Chapman and Natalie Merchant but with a quality all her own, Holly is an insightful, passionate storyteller.
This is potent female-led folk of serene harmony and elemental ferocity. Inhabiting the edge where music and environmental campaigning blur.
Funded by Help Musicians, Holly’s 2023 debut album, ‘Born For These Times’ received warm accolades and the resulting upsurge of audience enthusiasm led to her sharing a stage with inspirational artists -Jesca Hoop, Lady Nade, Daisy Chute, Hollie Rogers and Nessi Gomes. Featured on Ivisible Folk, Siren Folk & Fatea showcase, 'See'. Made album of the week on Beyond Folk & Acoustic and Acoustic Routes Radio, 2023 debut, BORN FOR THESE TIMES connects people with nature and cultivates resilience.
A UK tour took performances to St Mary's Totnes, The Folklore Rooms Brighton, Exeter Phoenix, Dart Music Festival, The Canteen Bristol, Dartington Hall & Plymouth Barbican.
A lover of the outdoors, Holly’s a nature connection advocate and community song facilitator, championing inclusive access to music. Rooted in Dartmoor adventures latest single ‘Follow Your Feet’, is a joyfully defiant folk anthem inspired by Right to Roam: A movement upholding and promoting land access rights in England and features artwork by Nick Hayes, author of Sunday Times Bestseller 'The Book of Trespass'.
2024 saw Holly awarded the Phoenix Archive Commission; heritage project responding to a rare, salvaged archive of home video tracking one family through a turbulent period 1935 -1958.
Holly’s pared-back resulting sophomore album melding cello, guitar, textural percussion and soaring vocal harmonies; ‘Fragments Remain’ is due for release in 2025. Produced by Ben Green, it explores themes of family, memory, dementia, shifting baseline syndrome, objectification and colonialism, culminating in a wryly nostalgic, wood-grained, cinematic dreamscape Phoenix Archive Commission.
Remembering Scottish folklore and Mòd singing ancestors; steeped in the broad vinyl collection of her childhood and raised on fireside harmonising; Holly's education has been experiential and there’s a natural, unaffected ease to her musicality. Likened to Sandy Denny, Joan Armatrading, Joni Mitchell,
Tracy Chapman and Natalie Merchant but with a quality all her own, Holly is an insightful, passionate storyteller.
This is potent female-led folk of serene harmony and elemental ferocity. Inhabiting the edge where music and environmental campaigning blur.
Funded by Help Musicians, Holly’s 2023 debut album, ‘Born For These Times’ received warm accolades and the resulting upsurge of audience enthusiasm led to her sharing a stage with inspirational artists -Jesca Hoop, Lady Nade, Daisy Chute, Hollie Rogers and Nessi Gomes. Featured on Ivisible Folk, Siren Folk & Fatea showcase, 'See'. Made album of the week on Beyond Folk & Acoustic and Acoustic Routes Radio, 2023 debut, BORN FOR THESE TIMES connects people with nature and cultivates resilience.
A UK tour took performances to St Mary's Totnes, The Folklore Rooms Brighton, Exeter Phoenix, Dart Music Festival, The Canteen Bristol, Dartington Hall & Plymouth Barbican.
A lover of the outdoors, Holly’s a nature connection advocate and community song facilitator, championing inclusive access to music. Rooted in Dartmoor adventures latest single ‘Follow Your Feet’, is a joyfully defiant folk anthem inspired by Right to Roam: A movement upholding and promoting land access rights in England and features artwork by Nick Hayes, author of Sunday Times Bestseller 'The Book of Trespass'.
2024 saw Holly awarded the Phoenix Archive Commission; heritage project responding to a rare, salvaged archive of home video tracking one family through a turbulent period 1935 -1958.
Holly’s pared-back resulting sophomore album melding cello, guitar, textural percussion and soaring vocal harmonies; ‘Fragments Remain’ is due for release in 2025. Produced by Ben Green, it explores themes of family, memory, dementia, shifting baseline syndrome, objectification and colonialism, culminating in a wryly nostalgic, wood-grained, cinematic dreamscape Phoenix Archive Commission.
