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Ellis Paul

Ellis Paul is a critically-acclaimed singer, songwriter, poet, and troubadour originally hailing from a potato farming family in northern Maine. He is the recipient of
thirteen Boston Music Awards, second only to multi-platinum act, Aerosmith. Over the course of twenty years, Ellis Paul has built a vast catalog of music, on 19 albums, which weds striking poetic imagery and philosophical introspection with hook-laden melodies. His music has been in numerous motion pictures (film maker Peter Farrelly calls him "a national treasure.") "I've got a car with over 475,000 miles on it, and it's my third road vehicle," Paul declares. "I've been doing 200 shows a year for over twenty years. There isn't a town in the country where I won't find a friend. I'm a nomad. And I'm gonna write and play until I'm gone." The Boston Globe calls his music "Literate, provocative, urbanely romantic" while Nora Guthrie says he is "Wise, tender, brilliant, and biting." Ellis has been a mainstay of West Side Folk since our first days, and always brings great music old and new to our stage.