Louise Jordan

Songwriter, Performer, Purveyor of Heritage Stories

Louise Jordan is a UK based songwriter and performer with a Masters in Human Rights and 10 years’ experience touring the UK & Europe. Self-accompanied on guitar and keyboard, Louise has released 7 recordings gaining national radio play on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show & Radio 4.

Louise has created outdoor performances since 2020. Her first piece ‘Pop Up Pedestal’ explores public engagement with statues asking audiences who or what they would like to celebrate in public space. A research project with the Brigstow Institute (University of Bristol) led to the development of the cross artform performance ‘Pop Up Pedestal: Hidden Stories’ with spoken word poet Saili Katebe and movement artist Divija Melally and a commission from Yesterday’s Story to create ‘Pop Up Pedestal: Queen Mary I’ for Chippenham Fringe connecting local audiences to the history of the town’s democracy.

Prior to working in outdoor performance, Louise worked as a folk singer and storyteller making and touring productions for indoor venues. She began touring her critically acclaimed one woman show ‘No Petticoats Here’ (2016) about extraordinary women of the First World War and in 2018 created ‘The Hard Way: the story of working class suffragette Hannah Mitchell’. In 2020, Louise launched ‘Florence’ to celebrate the many inspirational achievements of Florence Nightingale in the 200th year since Florence’s birth.

Commissioned by UK Parliament, Dreadnought South West, the V&A Museum & Groninger Museum, Louise has worked with such organisations as the National Trust and University of Oxford to share her approach to opening the history books and sharing hidden women’s histories through song.

Louise is grateful to have received support from Arts Council England, the English Folk Dance and Song Society and Help Musicians UK.