Louise Jordan is a UK based songwriter and performer. The thread that underpins all of Louise’s work is her desire to challenge existing narratives around gender and power.
With a Masters in Human Rights and 14 years’ experience touring the UK & Europe, Louise has released 7 recordings gaining national radio play on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show & Radio 4.
In 2016 Louise began touring her critically acclaimed one woman show ‘No Petticoats Here’ about extraordinary women of the First World War and in 2018 created ‘The Hard Way: the story of working class suffragette Hannah Mitchell’. In 2020, Louise launched ‘Florence’ to celebrate the many inspirational achievements of Florence Nightingale in the 200th year since Florence’s birth. 2021 saw the launch of Louise’s first outdoor performance project ‘Pop Up Pedestal‘ which challenges audiences to consider who is commemorated in public spaces and why.
Louise’s most recent project ‘Behind Enemy Lines‘ was created in 2025 and is touring from February 2026. Telling the stories of women secret agents who worked for Special Operations Executive during WW2, Behind Enemy Lines is a solo performance which combines original songs, storytelling, live musical accompaniment, soundscape and movement to spotlight lesser known stories from the past.
Commissioned by UK Parliament, the V&A Museum, Groninger Museum, 101 Outdoor Arts & Dreadnought South West, Louise has worked with such organisations as the National Trust, the University of Oxford, and the Women’s History Network to share her approach to opening the history books and sharing hidden women’s histories through song.
Louise is grateful to have received support from Arts Council England, the English Folk Dance and Song Society and Help Musicians UK.
Louise’s website can be found at http://louisejordan.co.uk/