Fancy doing the double? This ticket grants access to both events as part of Pitchfork Music Festival at Kings Place: Joanna Sternberg + support in Hall Two (4pm) followed by Kara Jackson and Joanne Robertson in Hall One from 7.30pm. Tickets for Joanna Sternberg go on sale at 10am on Fri 28 Jul.

Hall Two: 

Joanna Sternberg is a singer, songwriter, musician and visual artist born and based in New York City that makes their UK debut at Kings Place for Pitchfork Music Festival. Produced by Matt Sweeney and recorded at Brooklyn’s Strange Weather Studios, Sternberg’s latest album I’ve Got Me was recorded and mixed over six days of intensely productive sessions during the summer of 2022.

In their glowing ‘Best New Music’ review of I’ve Got Me, Pitchfork writes, ‘Think of this album like an oblong version of Carole King’s landmark 1971 album Tapestry: Sternberg is presenting a new canon of inverted love songs, each one so sturdy and true that they could withstand being covered by the lowliest of bands and still sound like gifts.’

Hall One:

Kara Jackson wants to be dangerous. Wielding her voice like a honey-coated blade, Kara crafts a blend of emotional folk music and poetic alt-country. With the radical honesty of Nina Simone, and the intricate lyricism of Fiona Apple and Joana Newsom, Kara’s writing blurs the line between poetry and song, demanding an attentive ear and a repeat listen.

Joanne Robertson is a musician, painter and poet. Joanne collaborates regularly with her friends, most recently with Dean Blunt on Black Metal 2, and Sidsel Meineche Hansen on Alien Baby. She moved to Glasgow in 2018, after having lived in London. Her painting and music both form from improvisatory moments of expression. Blue Car, is a collection of songs from her archive of unreleased solo recordings, similar to Painting Stupid Girls, these tracks attempt to record the moment, and where she was at emotionally that day, similar to diary entries. The dates she wrote these songs is unknown, they span roughly a ten year period.

When Annahstasia writes a song, it embodies a world of its own. The self-taught singer-songwriter says her artistic practice is steeped in fantasy and romanticism, and Annahstasia’s rose-colored perspective is elucidated by her enchantingly sumptuous and acrobatic voice—one she developed through a lasting appreciation for complex vocalists like Bill Withers, Nina Simone, and Janis Joplin.