Finn O'Sullivan

Audiences can expect high energy indie pop as well as slower, more indie folk tunes. It's up to you. I can cater my set list to fit your needs. I'm happy to do all original songs, all covers, or a mix of the two.

Incredibly Unfamous award-winning indie pop-folk artist Finn O'Sullivan got her start performing Taylor Swift concerts in her bedroom while her parents were out. She grew up in a small house with sparkly lights and solstice parties and full moon walks and go-to-sleep guitar serenades and left of center everything. And music was at the heart of all of it. She played piano early and she sang songs in the bathtub and she picked up a guitar when she was twelve and, as Taylor Swift herself once said, "just like clockwork, the dominoes cascaded in a line."

Former Rolling Stone managing editor John Dioso calls her “the lovechild of Phoebe Bridgers and Taylor Swift.” And that marriage of songstress genius comes out in her lyricism and in her fearlessness in exploring the depths of feeling. To quote another of her musical heroes and influences, Ezra Furman, she is unafraid to "feel all the feelings in the book tonight," and she writes about the universal themes of love and loss with both humor and compassion. In one of her songs, she muses about a habit of putting her "faith in things that tend to fall apart, secretly hoping I can turn it into art." And she’s quite adept at doing just that. O'Sullivan's turns of phrase and sometimes surprising chord progressions evidence a maturity in musicianship and a true poetic gift. She has shared the stage with Langhorne Slim, Carsie Blanton, Rainbow Girls, Olivia Barton, and a host of local Colorado talent. And she’s found her way to the festival scene as well, gracing the stage at The Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons, FoCoMX in Fort Collins, The Winter Walkabout in Longmont, and the LEAF Global Arts Festival in Ashland.

O'Sullivan says that songwriting is a way for her to express herself and talk about things that are important to her, which is sometimes hard for her to do in everyday conversation. She is "committed to creating things that other people can relate to," and her songs are a testament to this commitment. She explores love and heartbreak, patriarchal privilege, the worlds of her favorite fictional characters, and the endless what if's that keep her up at night.

Lyrics are often where a song begins for O'Sullivan. "When I write a song," she says, "it's not based on a melodic idea or a chord progression, but on a concept, a lyrical idea." Her lyrics range from old soul, to millennial quirky, to fresh and bold, and her clever, catchy, and sometimes melancholy tunes simply get stuck in your head.

O'Sullivan began working with a producer after she won the 2016 eTown Handmade Songs Competition in Boulder, CO, and she has been recording on her own and with producers since. Her first vinyl release, Best Last Words (2024), is available HERE. The title song of her first LP, When the Power Comes Back On (2020), won the Song of the Year award in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest. O’Sullivan enjoys writing songs about fictional characters, and has self-produced three releases in that vein: Fine Things, inspired by the show Our Flag Means Death, bite it back, inspired by the Dead Gay Wizards Club, dog days, inspired by that same club (IYKYK), and her latest release, The Tape, inspired by Interview with the Vampire. On inauguration day 2025, in a turn toward the political landscape, she released Not My America, a duo of songs that serves as a calling out, a standing up, and a reminder that art is catharsis and action and power. The title song of that mini EP earned her a place as a finalist in the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriter Showcase.

Depending on the venue, O’Sullivan plays solo, with a full band, or with “Children of Divorce,” a trio of femme songwriters who play originals as well covers of their “parents” Taylor Swift and Harry Styles. O'Sullivan earned her bachelor's degree from The University of Colorado Denver as a singer-songwriter major.

O'Sullivan coined herself "incredibly unfamous" based on a pinback button she found at a second hand store. Her song of the same name realizes that remaining incredibly unfamous is not the worst thing that could happen. For her, the phrase is primarily about staying true to self amidst pressures to fit someone else's idea of what it means to be successful in a daunting and challenging industry. Still, though the phrase is relevant, it is also, hopefully, eventually, wrong.

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