Gillian Frances

Gillian Frances has been playing music ever since she picked up her father’s drumsticks at the age of five. A child of parents who were involved in the Portland grunge scene of the 90’s, she witnessed firsthand the lifestyle that musicians and creatives can live. At the age of ten, she began attending the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, OR--a music camp dedicated to empowering women and girls through music. In addition to Rock Camp, she studied classical violin for many years and began playing and writing songs on the guitar at sixteen. The many different musical worlds that Frances was involved with have blended into a style of songwriting that is uniquely hers--refined and gentle, bold and unafraid, inquisitive and meditative. As a multi-instrumentalist, Frances has been collaborating in bands since she was sixteen, and only within the past two years has she decided to step forward and begin pushing her personal creative work into the world. Notably, Frances played bass and guitar in Black Belt Eagle Scout, was a collaborator in indie-rock band Surfer Rosie and played violin in This Is The Kit. Miles Away From Myself was recorded in Spring of 2019 with Nicholas Wilbur at the Unknown in Anacortes, WA. Inspired by artists such as Slowdive, Grouper, Mirah and This Is The Kit, Frances blends folk-inspired fingerpicking guitar with distorted, cascading guitar solos, soft, lilting vocals and drums that can be as soft as a whisper and as thundering as a waterfall.

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