Dream War Concert feat. Ella Mine

Join us in the Great Hall of Glen Eyrie Castle for a musical evening with artist Ella Mine.

Ella honed her musical talent for six years under the tutelage of Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, where she studied classical piano performance, followed by a university degree in music. These years of training honed Ella’s already-sharp intuition and expanded her musical vocabulary, allowing her own idiosyncratic voice to emerge and flourish. A visual artist as well as a musician, Ella Mine’s musical aspirations included far more than writing and recording songs. Her passion was to create a holistic experience for her audience; something that she and they could get lost in. She knew from the outset that she wanted Dream War to land as a fully-formed, seamlessly cohesive, movie-score-like, symphonic experience.

As a teenager, Ella experienced chronic amplified pain. “I was prescribed a medication and had a severe adverse reaction that affected the functioning of my brain” she says, describing the experience. “I was suddenly overwhelmed by fear, confusion, intrusive and violent thoughts and dreams, akathisia, and a host of other psychoactive effects. Whether I was asleep or awake, everything around me was like a nightmare.”

The lyrics in Ella’s songs reflect this journey and her years-long recovery. The “fuel to her fire” in creating her debut album, Dream War, was the knowledge that others were experiencing the same kind of pain she had come to know.

These songs ask the question, “How are we to dream, hope, and love again after our first dreams have been crushed, our first hopes dashed, and our first loves ravaged?” Ella Mine raises these questions with dexterity, poise, and an ambition born of courage. It is impossible to hear any one of these songs without the sense that you’re listening not only to one songwriter’s story, but to the untold depths of your own.