If you’re here, you probably know me from The City Harmonic, or maybe from my solo worship records. Thank you for your support over the years, genuinely. Those songs mean something to me, and I know they’ve meant something to many of you, too.
You may be aware that for the last few years, my focus in the Christian music space has been on research, not recording (or writing). Through Worship Leader Research, I helped lead what became the largest survey of North American worship leaders — work done in partnership with a number of prominent universities that surfaced some important findings, including the “Big Four” and that worship leaders experience mental health struggles at 8.5 times the rate of the general population. That research continues, and I’m proud of what we’ve done.
On the music side, I’ve been quietly writing and developing songs under the name Frank Fiction for close to twenty years, with a serious focus over the last three. If you prefer to have a sense of what to expect, these songs are an artful mix of alternative folk, roots with just a tinge of blues, and all rooted in a serious respect for the craft of songwriting and the complexity of the human life and the stories we tell. Speaking of which, I’m home in Hamilton after almost a decade in Nashville, now co-running an art gallery and café called Crown & Press on Ottawa Street, and hosting a monthly songwriter showcase called Songs in the Round — an intimate, Bluebird Cafe-inspired evening where songwriters trade songs and stories (and laughs) in a room of about 80 people.
In fact, Hamilton City Magazine recently published a feature on what we’re building. If you want the fuller story — the ska band, Nashville, the return home, where all of this is headed — it’s a good read:
Crown & Press series puts a spotlight on songs → Hamilton City Magazine
A few things worth knowing:
This site is going quiet. New music, show announcements, and updates will all live at frankfiction.ca. If you want to follow what’s next, that’s where to go.
The mailing list is moving. I’m retiring the old email list. If you’d like to stay in the loop, you can sign up fresh at frankfiction.ca or songsintheround.ca.
The old music isn’t going anywhere. Everything from The City Harmonic and my solo records is still on Spotify, Apple Music, and all the usual places. Those songs still belong to you as much as they belong to me.
I’ve got about 40 unreleased Frank Fiction songs and a room full of people showing up every month to hear them. I have a lot to say. Come find out what.
— Elias
frankfiction.ca · songsintheround.ca · worshipleaderresearch.com · @frankfictionmusic
