Name: Foxglove
Start: 2025-07-17T14:30:00
Location: Preston Hall

Mendocino Music Festival

Foxglove

Zoe Ellis’s dramatic and colorful voice is well known to music fans in the Bay Area and beyond. Described by reviewers as “a resourceful and inventive vocalist,” she sang for many years with the Bay Area funk band, the Mo’Fessionals. A dynamic performer, Ellis’s credits include live performances with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Donald Byrd, Phil Lesh and Friends, ZADELL music co-lead with her big brother Dave Ellis, SoVoSo, Slammin All-Body Band, Darryl Anders AgapeSoul, and as the leader of her own quartet, The Zoe Ellis Group. Currently, she is Director of Music Ministries at Glide Memorial Church.

Zoe Ellis, with Tammy Lynne Hall and Leberta Lorál

Preston Hall

Twenty-three years ago, three members of what would soon be Foxglove gathered on stage at the Caspar Community Center to record a live album in front of a capacity crowd. This trio of multitalented musicians—Morgan Daniel, Gwyneth Moreland, and John Bush—had been building a following at small, local venues, showcasing Gwyneth’s lovely voice, Morgan’s songwriting, John’s instrumental prowess, and some sweet sibling harmonies. Booi Volk, the future fourth member, was in the audience that night, a mandolin player whose playing would become a signature part of Foxglove’s sound. Since then the players have been involved with projects and other groups that have taken them to various parts of the globe, but they always come home to their home in Mendocino County.