About Me
For over four decades, Ellen Stapenhorst has been entertaining audiences with her uplifting, original folk music, humor, and a love of bringing people together. Her rich and unpretentious voice (about which actor Tim Curry once exclaimed, “A DAMN fine set of pipes!”), strong guitar playing and insightful, well-crafted songs come from and go right to the heart. After getting her start as a teenager in the coffee houses of southern California, she moved in the early 1970s to Colorado, where she was part of the Aspen-based eclectic original country-rock band Tanglefoot. Since then, Ellen’s life and musical roads have taken her around the US and the world. She has shared the stage with many artists, including John Denver, Buffy Ste. Marie and Shawn Colvin. Ellen recently released her fourth album of original songs, with personal, spiritual, social and environmental themes, and a little satire for good measure. She makes her home in western Colorado.
