February 26th, 2023 6pm Stage 2
Joy Askew
Joy Askew has enjoyed an embellished career playing
alongside music icons such as Peter Gabriel, Laurie
Anderson, Joe Jackson, Rodney Crowell, Jack Bruce and
Quincy Jones. She has performed with her own band on
stages from NYC’s CBGBs to festivals in UK, USA, Japan
and Europe and opened for David Bowie and David Byrne
among others.
Now as a re-invented musical poet she has been a dedicated
songwriter since the late nineties and her ninth album as an
artist, Everything Is Different, was released in May 2022.
She also sings in a choir that was featured on a Sufjan
Stevens EP, collaborated with a British brass band and
released a downtempo jazz electronica album along the
way.