Jolie Holland
Bello Bar
Tuesday 23rd September
8:00 pm
Show Details:
Foggy Notions is proud to present Jolie Holland on Tuesday 23rd September. Tickets on general sale Friday 8th August at 10:00.
Forging a timeless, haunting musical career, Jolie Holland returns to UK & Ireland to share her intimate and honest artistry spanning several albums and projects with her new and devoted fans from across the pond. Come be enchanted by Jolie Holland this Fall.
Over the span of her career, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American song—jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll—into some stew that is impossible to categorize with any conventional critical terminology. This is her burden and her gift, to know all of these American songs of the last ten decades in her head and her heart, and to have to wrestle with their legacy. She dives straight to the pathos of a song the way the very greatest singers, singers like Mavis Staples, or Al Green, or Skip James, or Tom Waits do. Upon first encounter her songs seem challenging, perhaps unsettling at times, but as so many poets and rockers have shown us (from Dante Alighieri to William Blake to Sylvia Plath to Patti Smith to Nick Cave to Mark E. Smith) that’s where the beauty lies. As evident on her first recordings, Holland apparently has no fear of the truth, and there is no emotional core that she cannot reach in song. In fact she thrives on the red hot centre of a musical composition, in all its strange and brutal detail.
