biography
biography
Whitney Ballen is an un-assuming, blond, 20-year-old college student and when she takes the stage, alone, with only a guitar, she doesn't give any reason to expect anything out of the ordinary. But then she sings. And holy fuck, when she sings, shivers skip down my spine. In her soft pop song "Good Good People," her voice carries the same delicate charm as Mirah, but with an even more childlike nature. That's taken to the "nth" degree in her simplistic cover of the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale" it sounds like a 10-year-old is singing. But the song that ultimately floors me is the aching "California State," where she drops the little-girl croon and spills her heart on the floor with the same captivating presence as Karen O (you know, if Karen O sang a little more like Joanna Newsom). It doesn't make sense. It's wonderful. But it doesn't make sense.contact: whitneyballen_gmail.com
shows
In the Future
December 5. 2011
Seattle Renaissance Hotel with Virgin Records' Me Vs. Myself
December 11. 2011
Can Can Cabaret and Kitchen Vinyl Release Show with Le Wrens and Ben Fisher
In the Past
November 18. 2011 Cypress Wine Bar and Lounge with Lizzie Huffman
November 15. 2011 Can Can Cabaret and Kitchen with Lizzie Huffman and Sean McGrath
October 14. 2011 Old Foundry Bellingham with Kris Orlowski and Jesse Morrows
Venues
Bluebird Microcreamry, EMP, Old Fire House, Vera Project, Columbia City Theatre, Greenhouse, Healthy Times Fun Club, Can Can Cabaret, Hilton Hotel, Soul Food Books, Old Foundry, Underground Coffeehouse, Starbucks HEAR
Artists I've Had the Honor To Share the Stage With
Damien Jurado from Hoquiam, Cumulus, Kris Orlowski, Jesse Morrows, Bryan John Appleby, Mirah, Lovers, Julia Nunes, Mark Pickeral, Rocky Votolato, Lizzie Huffman and her Brother Band, Shenandoah Davis, Lori Goldstone, Alice Sandahl from the Pica Beats, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, Naomi Punk, Craig Salt Peters, USF, Husbands' Love Your Wives, Poem, Courtney Marie Andrews, Clint McCune
Events Played
Vera Project Benefit Gala at the Seattle Design Center, Folklife Festival 2010 and 2011, Live Performance at Hollow Earth Radio, Girls Rock School Panel at Billings Middle School, Microscope Experiment in Bellingham, Washington with bands the Lonely Forest, Mission Orange, Armanikos, and Sweaty Sweaters, Arts in the Park for Redmond Parks and Recreation 2009, Uncorked Kirkland Wine Festival
