

Sandy Bell
Live Dates
2025
January 17, 2025 - Catskill, NY - Avalon Lounge
2024
October 9 - Washington, DC - Union Stage
October 11 - Norfolk, CT - Infinity Hall
October 12 - Woodstock, NY -Levon Helm Studios
October 14 - Philadelphia, PA - Sanctuary
October 15 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
October 17 - Ann Arbor, MI - The Ark
October 18 - Evanston, IL - Space (Early Show)
October 18 - Evanston, IL - Space (Late Show)
October 19 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar
October 21 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
October 22 - Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room
October 24 - Los Angeles, CA -The Moroccan Lounge
October 25 - Los Angeles, CA -The Moroccan Lounge
October 27 - Phoenix, AZ -MiM Music Theatre
October 30 - Austin, TX -3Ten.
November 1 - Atlanta, GA - Garden Club
May 30, 2025 - Saugerties,NY The Local


Hello Beautiful Friends.Some Newsโฆ.
Weโre back in the studio!New musicโs cominging early 2025. I'll have more info soon. & I sure hope to see some of you live and in person. Come to a show or send me a note. I love you.
โฆ,Sandy
Also:
I am back on Spotify. Please follow!!! & Pray for me,.. & my rage. Love to all.

โฆโฆFull Length Record Available Nowโฆโฆ

โฆ The Vinyl can be ordered on Bandcamp โฆ

โฆMonster Trying to be a Lover Videoโฆ

โฆAngel of the Dying Self Videoโฆ

โฆOlivia Lumen Videoโฆ

Biography
Alternative musician, singer-songwriter Sandy Bell plumbs the damaged American psyche with the poetical precision of Emily Dickinson and the cinematic psychological acuity of David Lynch. In essence, she transmutes the bone-core despair and grief of broken American dreams and fears into a sonic cathedral of songs โ a cathartic transfiguration of pain to reckoning.
Bellโs solo debut album, When I Leave Ohio (2017), is an intensely personal excavation of broken dreams, of the difficulties of love, of the oft quiet rage that can consume oneself and those we love. It explores, โAll the ways I leave โฆ and all the ways they left.โ Joan Wasserโs (aka Joan As Policewoman) haunting violin snakes through the Americana poetry of birds, blue eyeshadow, cash registers, and purses filled with cold stones, and the spiritually infused lush, enunciated musical production, while Bellโs voice floats over all like a ghostly prayer.
Stereo Embers Magazine writes of Bellโs debut: โWhen I Leave Ohio (2017) is one of the darkest, most moving song cycles this critic has heard since Patty Griffinโs Living With Ghosts or Bruce Springsteenโs Nebraska ... Sandy Bellโs songs have such poetic precision and crushing emotional exactitude, her work is nothing short of staggering.โ
Bellโs follow up album Entelechy (en-หte-lษ-kฤ) 2023 reaches for the stars through the crack in Pandoraโs box. Inspired by the natural and invisible forces of our mysterious world, the songs emotionally and musically mirror the subtle intricacies of cellular biology, the heartbeat of tall dark pines and moss, and the gravitational pull binding us to endlessly revolve around that luminous star sun that we awake to every day. Music journalist Alex Green raved that Entelechy is โfilled with stirring melancholy and musical grace,โ an album that โexplores the geometry of both musical form and sorrow, while the cathartic transmutation of grief into promise will take you somewhere between the worlds of Harry Nilsson and Kate Bush.โ
Born the youngest of five in Cleveland, OH, her father was an ice deliveryman and community college teacher and her mother worked at hotels, grocery stores and the local horse track. Even though there was โa beautiful attempt at the American dream,โ her family life was darkened by the realities of the myth and Bell developed a โdistrust of anything too happyโ and a realization that she was in โthe underbelly of the animal.โ Music was her respite. Raised in the church, she remembers the thrill of listening to her family lined one after another raising their voices: her mother, a voice like the English sweetheart singer Vera Lynn, and her father with his gift for harmonies and a voice that sounded like he was an โastronaut singing from outer space.โ It was here in the church listening to the organist or choir and looking up at the stained glass and sculptures that music and art became neurally fused in her head. Later, inspired by the original abstract expressionists Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner and Elain de Kooning, she realized when an artwork is emotionally honest, she hears its music.
Her most notable collaborations have included background vocals on Bat For Lashes Mercury Prize nominated album The Bride (2016). She also co-wrote and recorded with her good friend the brilliant and soulful Jeff Buckley during their 80s Hollywood days. The song Hollywould, co-written with Buckley and featuring him on acoustic guitar, was included on her EP My Muse My Monkey (GSI Records 2000).
After Bell opened a number of dates on Rachel Yamagataโs Galactic Trees Tour (2022-24), Yamagata said, โThere is something otherworldly about Sandy and her offerings that encourage us to unapologetically reach for words like โchannelingโ and โspiritโ and โhealingโ and essence.โ Her role as an artist is bigger than most may understand at first, but if you dive into the ocean that she offers, you will find magic very few have privy to thus far.โ
{ By Claudia Summers }


