Eve Selis & Friends: Dark Sky Blue – Healing Hearts Tour (USA)

Eve Selis

“These songs look deep into the truth of my life as I am today. I had to face the wounds without flinching and learn to celebrate the scars. We all have them and they make up who we are. Instead of being ashamed of the scars we should rejoice. It means we’ve healed.” - Eve Selis

The songs from this collection were written from a place of vulnerability while walking through one of the darkest seasons of Selis’ life as she lost her brother to suicide - it took six years to write this project because she has been living these songs.

Selis is sharing Dark Sky Blue with a grateful, hopeful, broken heart and experiencing extraordinary healing through the power of her music is wanting to share that hope and healing reminding listeners who are navigating these same feelings that they are not alone.

This period of quiet introspection led the seasoned performer on a journey of honest self-discovery and planted the seeds of a new artistic vision in her fertile heart. Her love and passion for singing has become even more meaningful over the years as she experiences the two-way, healing power of music.

She describes this record: if U2, Sara Bareilles, and Jeff Buckley had a baby that’s what this record sounds like.

Selis has been a singer for as long as she can remember - she grew up in the San Diego region and as a youngster began performing in her local church band, all the while dreaming of becoming a rock star. After an abortive spell at university studying musical theater and English, Selis began a career performing, writing and recording her own music and has released 10 albums to date.

She has gigged at the infamous Abbey Road Studios, toured Europe, and her last studio album, See Me With Your Heart was produced by GRAMMY-award winning producer Kenny Greenberg (Allison Moorer, The Mavericks, Joan Baez)

Selis lives in Franklin, Tennessee and is a working mother whose life has been about balancing her music career, raising 4 beautiful children, and learning more than she ever wanted to know about brain tumors…

'Eve is a deeply creative, caring artist who gives everything to her craft. As a live performer she is awesomely powerful, as a recording artist she is both sensitive and strong. I love her spirit and I love her music. She deserves to shine. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen in the U.K.'
— Bob Harris

support: Florence Sommerville

20-year-old Florence Sommerville, is a singer-songwriter from Orsett, a small Essex village, who thrives on modern country music. She’s been playing guitar since she was around eight years old, and writing songs since she was 12, and has performed at open mics for the past seven years. When she was 14 she reached the final of Open Mic UK competition held at the O2 Indigo Arena in London. She’s also played at several major festivals including Latitude, Moseley Folk and Arts Festival, Manchester Food and Drink Festival and many listening venues around southern England. November 2023 saw her opening for Nashville star Hannah Bethel at the Slaughtered Lamb, London.

In October 2023 she released her self-penned debut single, the aptly-titled On My Way, to widespread radio play across the width and breadth of the UK and further afield. To a simple, but effective acoustic-based arrangement, Florence’s rich, emotional voice takes the listener on a journey of self-discovery as she explores the anxieties and doubts of a young person as they make their way through life. The title track from her digital EP released in the summer of 2023, a set of songs by deeply self-aware teenager who is still making sense of herself—who she is, what she stands for, where her life is going. She doesn’t arrive as the next ready-made country star beauty figure Barbie doll. There is an unquestionable realness about the way Florence makes sense of life through her music. But she exhibits a surety of mind beyond hers years, to create music that connects and inspires, and that will inflame a growing fire.

There’s a raw rootsy quality to Florence’s music that belies her youthfulness. An assured performer, she takes total command of any stage from the outset and allows her crystalline vocals to shine on her well-crafted original songs. A huge lover of country music, whilst in Nashville last year, she played the famed Commodore Grill and Tennessee Brew Works and also recorded demos of some of her new self-penned songs, stating that she felt as if she had found her spiritual home.