Leah Sanderson
Artist | Writer | Musician | Community Arts
Leah Sanderson is a musician and writer based in Nottingham, Uk - an old mining county in the midlands of the country, steeped in the narratives and folk traditions that run through this part of the old world.Formerly performing under the alias Keto, Leah cut her teeth performing widely throughout the UK and Europe, honing her songwriting and performances at acclaimed festivals such as Green Man, Glastonbury and Iceland Airwaves. Leah has received wide support and play on both local and international radio stations such as BBC Radio 6, London, and KEXP, in Seattle, and has supported artists such as Low, Lisa O’ Neill, The Colorist Orchestra, Julia Jacklin, and Aldous Harding, amongst many others.The luminary and leading UK cultural review website The Quietus suggests that her debut album Blackened Pool “imbues millennial folk with post-rock tension, the minimal yet utterly compelling music she makes sounds as outside of time as her voice.”Leah continues this immersion into new musical forms and will be embarking on a journey across the US in September 2023. Meeting with various music collectives, organisations, individuals and artists, aiming to deepen her appreciation and understanding of artist/community relationships in the US through research, collaboration and discussion, firsthand. Throughout this journey she will also continue to experiment with and develop work through collaboration with artists and noisemakers alike. This will be generously supported in part by the Roosevelt Travelling Scholarship, but first and foremost by the people and communities she hopes to meet and be inspired by along her way.