Biography
From Adelaide, Australia Jude Elliot is an original female singer/pianist guitarist whose music explores emotional depth and has a rich sound.
Influenced by Elbow, Madonna, Jeff Buckley, Coldplay, Alanis Morrisette and Ute Lemper; Jude's style blends classical strings and piano with percussion and guitar. Her music is contemporary acoustic with jazzy grooves.
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Jude was a finalist at the Australian Music Week industry showcase in Sydney of the most outstanding unsigned artists in the country and also a finalist in the SNAP youth music competition and most recently nominated for the 2004 SAMIA most outstanding female solo artist award and named a finalist for the APRA pd awards.
She has performed gigs with the likes of Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set, Monique Brumby, Evermore, Jon Stevens, Teddy Thompson (USA), Hawksley Workman (Canada), Farryl Purkiss (Sth Africa), Ty Noonan, Kate Miller-Heidke and was the former lead singer of the rock band The J's.
Jude composed the music score for the theatre production The Boys at the George Theatre, has written classical instrumental scores for short films, visual art installations and has also recorded vocals for UK producer Tim Ericson for My Beautiful Disease.
Jude has performed extensively in both Australia and in the USA including such venues in New York as CBGBs, Pianos (with Evermore), Don Hills, Makor, Rockwood Music Hall and The Village Underground.
After the recent release of "A Gentle Glimpse of Waking", Jude is now recording new tracks with Tim Ericson in Australia.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.