Alela Diane News & Updates

Alela Diane releasing 'Cusp,' shared two videos, touring

The excellent folk singer Alela Diane will follow 2015’s collaborative album with Ryan Francesconi...

Jan 31, 2018 • brooklynvegan

Alela Diane and Ryan Francesconi on Collaboration, Inspiration and Cold Moon

Alela Diane is an artist I’ve written about before, a singer-songwriter with enchanting natural gi...

Oct 16, 2015 • Paste

Alela Diane: To Begin

Alela Diane established herself in the psych-folk movement, but starts to branch out on her new rele...

Apr 06, 2011 • KCRW

Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi – “The Sun Today”

Alela Diane is a woman who understands uncertainty. In the past four years, she's grappled with the ...

Jul 02, 2015 • Stereogum

Blitzen Trapper and Alela Diane @ the Black Cat, Monday Night

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Mar 03, 2009 • Washington City Paper

ALELA DIANE > To Be Still

Tough time deciding where to begin reviewing Alela Diane’s To Be Still. The Nevada City, Californi...

May 01, 2009 • American Songwriter

Alela Diane Releases New Song 'Howling Wind'

She has the sort of voice that both affirms one's world-weariness and soothes it-it feels like the a...

May 31, 2022 • BroadwayWorld

Alela Diane

In music, one of the most transformative experiences a woman can have is also an unspoken artistic t...

May 09, 2018 • SF Station

Looking Glass (Review) — Alela Diane

Sometimes records come around that perfectly fit a particular moment in time. Looking Glass by Portl...

Nov 03, 2022 • Under the Radar

Alela Diane's 'About Farewell' is out, she's at the Historic Old Church tonight

7:30 p.m. tonight, the Historic Old Church, $13, Holcombe Waller opens On her latest, "About Farwell...

Jun 26, 2013 • Oregonian

Live Review: Alela Diane at the Old Church, 6/26

Given the delicacy of Alela Diane's newest material, the Old Church, with its gently sloping walls a...

Jun 28, 2013 • Willamette Week

Portland singer Alela Diane checks in from the long road home to an Edgefield show

It's a shame about all this corn. Are we there yet??? -- Alela Diane, July 20, Twitter America's vas...

Jul 23, 2011 • Oregonian

Alela Diane Brings the Family to Bottle

Alela Diane: It's a family affair tonight at Empty Bottle, when whiskey-voiced country-rock crooner ...

Jun 08, 2011 • NBC Chicago

Pickathon Starlight Series, Episode 6: Alela Diane

There are only 41 days left until Pickathon, and summer is officially well and truly underway. To he...

Jun 21, 2019 • The Stranger

Album Review: Alela Diane

[FOLK] On the title track of her new album, About Farewell, local songstress Alela Diane sings, "Lea...

Jun 24, 2013 • Willamette Week

In music and in life, Alela Diane says 'Farewell'

What a difference two years can make. In 2011, honey-throated singer Alela Diane married her longtim...

Sep 04, 2013 • San Francisco Examiner

Alela Diane’s New Song: “The Way We Fall”

Alela Diane has a brand new song, and it’s great. “The Way We Fall” is a beautiful, two-part c...

Mar 13, 2013 • The Portland Mercury

Alela Diane and Ryan Francesconi’s Collaborative Debut

ALELA DIANE & RYAN FRANCESCONI They’ve got each others’ backs. WHEN I LAST SPOKE to her, Alela D...

Oct 14, 2015 • The Portland Mercury

Alela Diane at Holocene

The Chamber of Commerce for Nevada City refers to the small California town as "the cultural gold mi...

Feb 11, 2009 • Oregonian

Nevada City native Alela Diane returns to the Nevada Theatre

Nevada County native Alela Diane returns to the refurbished, historic Nevada Theatre for a concert o...

Mar 22, 2023 • The Union

Alela Diane Turns Grief Into Grace on Radiant ‘Who’s Keeping Time?’

At some point over the more than 20 years that she has been performing and recording, Alela Diane qu...

May 20, 2026 • Glide Magazine

Portland musician’s new album born out of loss

The song helped catalyze the making of her new album, which was recorded live in the attic of her Po...

May 08, 2026 • OPB

Robin Pecknold & Alela Diane Cover “These Days”

Two nights ago in Milan, Italy's Teatro Smeraldo, Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold joined the evening's o...

Nov 22, 2011 • Stereogum

Folk Musician Alela Diane is Better Known in Paris Than in Portland, Her Hometown

A decade ago, Alela Diane came to Portland from Nevada City to build a career in music. Instead, the...

May 17, 2018 • Willamette Week

Behind the music - Alela Diane

Californian singer songwriter Alela Diane plays her first Irish gig in 15 years when she appears at ...

May 03, 2026 • RTÉ Ireland

Alela Diane Performs 'Lost Land' At Portland's Old Church

The singer-songwriter recently held a special concert at The Old Church in downtown Portland, Ore., ...

Aug 07, 2013 • Northcountrypublicradio.org

Alela Diane on Rough Trade’s Basement Tapes

When they stopped by Rough Trade’s office in London recently, Alela Diane and husband/guitarist To...

Nov 14, 2011 • The Portland Mercury

Alela Diane’s New Album and Portland Playhouse Show

In March, I posted Alela Diane‘s new song “The Way We Fall,” and now there’s some more infor...

May 06, 2013 • The Portland Mercury