Artist: Elsa Rae

Indie Babe Of The Week Our Indie babe Of The Week is Elsa Rae. She is uke artist based out of Kanas City. While little is known about her, we do now that she likes to give human names to her instruments and that she has a voice that will make you melt. "Don't Move To Minnesota" is a bittersweet tale, briskly showcasing vastly different styles of Elsa. As the song demands her vocals to get faster, she keeps right up, matching every single tone perfectly. I'm a sucker for anything with a ukulele, and while some [...]

Kansas City uke musician Elsa Rae recently was featured as the SoundClouder of the day, which is where we first heard of this excellent track 'Don't Move to Minnesota'. A forgotten e-mail to myself and several days later I rediscovered the message wrapped into today's featured song, and loved it all over again. We don't currently have too much information on her, aside from her affinity for tiny instruments, all of which are named that she used for recording (e.g. Vincent the Ukulele, Mozart the Toy Piano, Sebastian F. Schwartz the Kazoo). Her album 'Plays Tiny [...]

• Elsa Rae - Don't Move to Minnesota