Elias Alexander
Elias Alexander is a good-time instigator and musical personality. He throws himself wildly into a number of artistic forms, including music, acting, and poetry. Originally from beautiful Ashland, Oregon, he graduated from Middlebury College in 2013 with an honors degree in music. He also spent significant time there doing environmental studies. While in Vermont he was winner of the Young Adult category at the Vermont Young Tradition Competition 2013 singing and playing border pipes. He then moved down to Boston to be part of the vibrant celtic and acoustic music scene.
He has spent time rapping with brass bands, playing blues harmonica, and riding a unicycle while playing bagpipes in New Orleans, singing old-time songs in Georgia, and frontmaning and playing tenor sax in a funk band wearing a red sequined Elvis suit in Vermont.
He is the frontman and piper of Afro-Celtic Funk band Soulsha, which he co-founded with keyboard and mandolin magician Neil Pearlman. He also plays border pipes in a west-coast duo called Yodel and Swag with Daniel Carr, and harmonica, guitar, and fiddle in a duo with Max Godfrey, of Georgia.
Elias loves teaching, and he is invited yearly to Alasdair Fraser’s Sierra Fiddle camp as a party-stirrir-upper, ceilidh emcee, and assistant teacher. He also teaches at Creekside Strings Fiddle camp in Ashland, Oregon and gives private lessons in Scottish bagpipes and beginning fiddle, as well as offering performance coaching.
He has spent time rapping with brass bands, playing blues harmonica, and riding a unicycle while playing bagpipes in New Orleans, singing old-time songs in Georgia, and frontmaning and playing tenor sax in a funk band wearing a red sequined Elvis suit in Vermont.
He is the frontman and piper of Afro-Celtic Funk band Soulsha, which he co-founded with keyboard and mandolin magician Neil Pearlman. He also plays border pipes in a west-coast duo called Yodel and Swag with Daniel Carr, and harmonica, guitar, and fiddle in a duo with Max Godfrey, of Georgia.
Elias loves teaching, and he is invited yearly to Alasdair Fraser’s Sierra Fiddle camp as a party-stirrir-upper, ceilidh emcee, and assistant teacher. He also teaches at Creekside Strings Fiddle camp in Ashland, Oregon and gives private lessons in Scottish bagpipes and beginning fiddle, as well as offering performance coaching.