About Elle Carpenter

Originally from Vermont, Elle Carpenter has been singing as long as she’s been walking.  She spent significant childhood years touring around the country with four siblings and her mother, performing and doing workshops at folk festivals, schools and other events.  At age 6 she recorded her first record as one of the "Wee-bops" in Central Vermont.  Soon afterwards she recorded another album with a folk group called the Fiddleheads.  From age 10 to 16 Elle toured with world/folk music group Village Harmony, traveling around the USA, UK, Canada, Denmark and Germany.  In 2009 (after recording and releasing her first solo album “The Best”) she was flown to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to perform at the White Palace Convention Center for a month.  She was excited to tour the US in 2010, and spent 2011 recording her second album “With Open Hands”, recently released on November 12, 2011.

Elle writes about life experiences – what she is living through or witnessing at the moment, and lives through honesty in words. 

“Many people have told me there is a RIGHT way of doing things in the music business.  Well I don’t believe that’s true.  I write in as many genres as possible, not always intentionally but because I believe that only by using all our influences can we make sense of the world we live in.  This applies to music and to progress.  As a young child I was greatly affected by the arts and also encouraged to mix creativity with hard work and self-motivation.  I use music as my form of expression in the hopes that I can touch other people and change their lives.”
-Elle Carpenter, November 10, 2011