A versatile fingerpicking guitarist and expressive singer, blues musician and Louisiana native Eleanor Ellis has performed throughout the United States, in Canada and Europe. Her musical influences include the blues musicians she has known personally as well as early blues greats such as Memphis Minnie and Mississippi John Hurt. According to one reviewer, her approach to the music is “distinctive and personal...more than copying one artist or another, Ellis distills the elements of the original and transmits them, intact, in her own special way...beautifully sung and thoroughly believable.”

Eleanor has a long involvement with the blues scene. She traveled and played with the late Gospel street singer Flora Molton, was a regular at the Saturday afternoon barbershop blues jams of Piedmont bluesman Archie Edwards, and sometimes accompanied Delta blues great Eugene Powell in Greenville Mississippi. She is a founding member of the Washington D.C. Blues Society and the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation, has written about the blues for several publications, teaches guitar privately and at various blues camps, and is producer and editor of the acclaimed video documentary Blues Houseparty, which features well-known Piedmont blues musicians such as John Jackson, John Cephas, and Archie Edwards.