Elliott Morris
for ‘The Lockdown Sessions’ – a recording series of performances made from home
Half English, half Scottish and raised in Wales and Lincolnshire, Elliott is a singer-songwriter who has honed his craft on the road across the British Isles, from Orkney to Jersey, Boston to Llangrannog, Belfast to Clonakilty. Further afield, he’s headlined shows in Germany, Holland, Ireland and Canada. Festivals have included Cambridge Folk Festival, The Great British Folk Festival, The London Acoustic Guitar Show, Ullapool Guitar Festival and Perthshire Amber, where BBC Alba broadcast a duo performance with Dougie MacLean. Elliott won a coveted Danny Kyle Award from Celtic Connections.
2020 should have seen him performing across the UK, along with international bookings including return trips to Italy (after winning ‘Best Music’ award at the Andrea Parodi World Music Festival 2019), and Germany, plus a trip to India, funded by Help Musicians UK, to study slide guitar from Debashish Bhattacharya.
Instead his performances and teaching for The Conservatoire in Blackheath, London had to move online. During lockdown, Elliott began composing more instrumentals. This project enabled him to record material he was working on in 2020, including existing material along with new compositions, some solo and some collaborative performances.
