Up-n-Coming Country: Ella Mae Bowen at TEDxGreenville 2014

A powerful new force in the world of country music, Ella Mae Bowen is a gifted teen from Walhalla, SC, with a beautiful, commanding voice of bold soul and human fragility. She walks on stage toting a brown guitar with a patina well beyond her age (it turns out it was her grandfather's guitar) and charms the crowd with her soft-yet-strong demeanor. Then? Then she kicks into high gear with three amazing songs that convince you you're getting a peek at an artist that you'll hear a lot more of in the future. Hers is a simply amazing performance. Awesome, powerful, beautiful!

This performance was part of TEDxGreenville UNZIPPED, held April 11, 2014, at the Kroc Center in Greenville, South Carolina. For more information about Ella Mae and her co-presenters, please visit .

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