The Kaitlyn Eller Project

A few weeks ago I got an email from someone who I assumed was some folksinger's Dad. The email was simply titled "The Next Ani Difranco." I laughed. In Folk cicles, calling yourself the next Ani Difranco is like calling yourself "the next Jesus."

Still I checked out the email and listened to the video it linked to. Not Bad. I reponded and asked for some more. What I found was that in just a few performances, the musician, Kaitlyn Eller, had gotten exponentially better. I also noticed that her songwriting had a depth to it that you don't normally see in young people. I was intrigued. She wasn't the next Ani, but she was the next something.




I was also intrigued as to how a singer in the middle of nowhere (the farm lands of California), was going to make anything out of her talents.

So this is why I present "The Kaitlyn Eller Project." I plan on keeping tabs on this young lady, and reporting on her progress every couple of months or so. I'm doing this to satisfy my own curiousity, but I hope that you will follow along. Hopefully it will paint a picture of the music industry as it is today, and maybe help a folkie from the boonies make a career out of something she loves.

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