Joanna Newsom Announces Intimate Solo Concerts in Los Angeles
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Singer-songwriter-harpist and indie icon Joanna Newsom, who has kept a low profile since the tour supporting her 2015 album “Divers,” has announced a five-night solo residency in Los Angeles.
Billed as the “Strings/Keys Incidence,” the shows will take place at the intimate Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever from May 15-19.
One of the shows is a matinee. The humorously worded announcement promises that new material will be performed: “I know what you’re thinking — we’re all thinking it — What’s in the saddlebag, Newsom?,” it reads. “It’s hard to tell from here, but darn if she doesn’t seem to packing some new tunes!” (The full announcement and dates are pasted below.) Newsom premiered five new songs in an unannounced one-off performance opening for Fleet Foxes just under a year ago.
The May concerts — and, presumably, the ensuing album — arrive 20 years after Newsom first rose to prominence rapidly amid the “freak folk” scene of the early ’00s, touring with leading artists in the movement like Devendra Banhardt and Vetiver.
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