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Ellis Paul (born Paul Plissey; January 14, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Born in Aroostook County, Maine, Paul is a key figure in what has become known as the Boston school of songwriting, a literate, provocative and urbanely romantic folk-pop style that helped ignite the folk revival of the 1990s.〔Alarik, Scott. Sound choice. ''Boston Globe'', April 24, 1998.〕 His pop music songs have appeared in movies and on television, bridging the gap between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.〔EllisPaul.com. (Ellis Paul biography. ) Retrieved January 10, 2007.〕 Having grown up in a small town in Maine, Paul attended Boston College on a track scholarship where he majored in English. An athletic injury sustained during his junior year changed the course of his professional career.〔Gewertz, Daniel. Passim hosts balladeer. ''The Boston Herald'', Friday, February 19, 1993.〕 Paul picked up a guitar to pass the time while sidelined, and discovered that playing guitar and writing songs was the creative outlet he had been looking for. After graduating from college he began playing at open mic nights in the Boston area while working with inner-city school children. Paul's growing popularity at Boston coffeehouses, coupled with winning a Boston Acoustic Underground songwriter competition and national exposure on a Windham Hill Records compilation combined to give him the confidence to resign his day-job and pursue a career as a professional musician.〔Wood, Arthur. ("Maine native Paul now a national name in Folk music". ) ''FolkWax E-zine''. Retrieved February 17, 2007. (Free with registration.)〕 To date, Paul has released 19 albums and has been the recipient of 14 Boston Music Awards, considered by some to be a pinnacle of contemporary acoustic music success.〔 Hughes, Troy. (A Conversation with Ellis Paul ) for Writer's Write, June 2000. Retrieved January 13, 2007.〕 He has published a book of original lyrics, poems, and drawings and released a DVD that includes a live performance, guitar instruction, and a road-trip documentary. In 2014 his children's CD ''Hero in You'' was published as a book by Albert Whitman & Company. As a touring musician, Paul plays close to 200 dates each year and his extensive club and coffeehouse touring, together with radio airplay, has brought him a solid national following.〔Healy, Benjamin. ("For a song: Ellis Paul's six-step program." ) ''Boston College Magazine'', Summer, 2004, p. 3–4. Retrieved February 10, 2007.〕 ==Growing up== Ellis Paul was born in Fort Kent, Maine, a small, rural potato-farming town near the Canadian border. Paul's family had strong connections to the potato industry — his father, Ed Plissey, was Executive Director of the Maine Potato Commission and his grandfather owned a potato farm. Schools in the area closed for three weeks each year so that school children could help with the potato harvest. Paul spent many hours working on his grandfather's farm.〔Wood, Arthur. Ellis Paul. ''Kerrville Kronikle'', #21. 1996.〕 Paul's mother, the former Marilyn Bonney of Buckfield, Maine, is a University of Maine graduate and was an extension agent for northern Aroostook County. She and her husband often worked together on special projects for the service. In the 1960s, Mrs. Plissey produced her own television show "The Aroostook Homemaker" which aired every third week on Presque Isle television station WAGM-TV.〔Sunday Telegram staff. "Families of Maine's Outstanding Young Men", Portland, Maine ''Sunday Telegram'', Jan. 19, 1964.〕 While attending high school in Presque Isle, Maine, Paul listened to Top-40 radio and participated in track. He played trumpet in the school's stage band where he was introduced to the big band jazz music of Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson. He excelled in track, becoming the Maine State champion in five-kilometer distance running, a feat that garnered several scholarship offers, including an offer from Boston College. Having graduated high school with the class of 1983, Paul relocated to Boston, leaving small-town rural life behind. In an interview with Daniel Gewertz of the ''Boston Herald'' Paul stated, "It wasn't until I went to Boston College on a track scholarship that I first heard folk."〔 Paul was particularly moved when he heard Bob Dylan singing "The House of the Rising Sun". It was then that he began to take folk music seriously.〔Stambler, Irwin and Stambler, Lyndon. ''Folk and Blues: The Encyclopedia.'' St. Martin's Press, 2001. ISBN 0-312-20057-9.〕 Paul was inducted into the Presque Isle High School Athletic Hall of Fame on Jan. 11, 2013.〔Clark, Ernie. (Presque Isle High School hall of fame to induct 4. ) ''Bangor Daily News'', September 25, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ellis Paul」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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