About

Louisa Stancioff, originally from Chesterville, ME, has lived a transient last 10 years working seasonal jobs and playing and witnessing music in towns such as Ithaca, NY, Missoula, MT, Asheville, NC, Los Angeles, CA, and Camden, which is the small town in Midcoast Maine she has continuously come back to and is comfortably settled in for now. She has toured around the country a number of times with her previous band, Dyado, opening for and playing alongside artists such as The Weather Station, Sadurn, Lula Wiles, Slow Packer, Izaak Opatz and Oshima Brothers. Her songs are of the folk genre, and often tell stories based in personal experience,  embellished with fictional narrative and magical elements to more thoroughly convey reality. Louisa’s Bulgarian heritage shows through in her intricate melodies, having grown up singing the ethereal, often dissonant traditional music with her family. Her electric guitar playing and dynamic arrangements with her band (Dave Kelly and Dan Kelly) exhibit a more contemporary version of “folk”, and could be likened to the music of Big Thief or Phoebe Bridgers. She still revisits her bluegrassy ways with Dolly Parton and Hank Williams era country covers and the occasional old time fiddle tune with her locally beloved country cover band, Cattail. These days though, more than anything, she loves to croon a crowd with her original folk n' roll style songs. In these early stages of her solo career, she has been lucky enough to open for bands and artists such as Indigo de Souza, Eleanor Buckland, Darlingside and Golden Oak. You can listen to her previous band, Dyado, anywhere, or her  solo EP Tape Recordings on Bandcamp, which was recently featured in Down East Magazine. Keep a watch out for her upcoming self titled debut LP, recorded with producer, Sam Kassirer.