Lindsay Lou has been making soulful, poignant music for the last decade. An undeniable powerhouse, Lou’s  remarkable gifts as a singer, songwriter, musician and performer demand the listener’s attention. Her singing  floats over the masterful playing and deep groove of her band with both a fierce intensity and a tender  intimacy. 

Born the daughter of a coal miner and the granddaughter of a Rainbow Gathering healer, Lindsay Lou grew up  with room in her heart for both blue collar grit and mystical mind expansion. She describes her family as a  group of close knit creatives, their lives influenced heavily by her maternal grandmother’s radical ideals and  zest for life. Surrounded by the Great Lakes and her musical family, she naturally rooted herself in the  Michigan music community. 

Raised with this sense of community, Lou recalls always being surrounded by music. So when the time came  for her to join a band, for Lou, it felt like finding a home away from home. Her career, like her life, has been  full of great moments of kismet. Growing up, Lou built her repertoire by practicing her vocals, and she picked  up the guitar so she could play with her Uncle Stuckey. The skills she honed during the days of learning to sing  and play with her family led to a wide variety of musical opportunities, singing in choir in high school, attending  an elite summer program at Interlochen on scholarship, and winning awards for her talents. It wasn't before  long that Lou began to tour the world with a band of her own, The Flatbellys, and later The Sweet Water  Warblers. The siren songbird and her band flew down South to take their place among friends in Nashville, TN. 

The move prompted Lindsay Lou’s fourth album, Southland (released April 2018), which is a transformative  and heart-wrenching ten-song stunner. Lou’s voice—and its unique ability to create an expansive, almost  physically tangible soundscape—carries each song on Southland forward. Produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh  Ritter, Lake Street Dive, Elephant Revival), Southland expanded on her 2015 crossover album, Ionia, which  had staked her unique sound apart from the more bluegrass stylings of her earlier releases. 

Today, touring nationally and internationally year round, Lindsay Lou and her band continue to collect a mass  of friends and fans along the way. Notable U.S. festival plays include Telluride Bluegrass festival, Merlefest,  Stagecoach, Redwing, ROMP, GreyFox, and a slew of others. Abroad, they have appeared at Scotland’s  Shetland Island Folk Fest and the Celtic Connections tour, Australia’s National Folk Festival, and others. Of  the live show, fRoots Magazine reviewed "...(Lindsay Lou is) the most affectingly expressive singer since Amy  Winehouse, backed by the new Punch Brothers.” The Boot, who featured Lindsay Lou Band as a “Can’t Miss  Act" at AmericanaFest 2018, says “...Lou brings introspection and masterful vocal work to her live show.” 

A trailblazer in the music community, Lou's recent set of singles, The Suite Sweets, make it clear that she can’t  be pigeon-holed into any prefabricated formula. Lindsay Lou continues to push boundaries with a sincerity and  grace that will disarm even your republican grandma.