JOANNA WESTON

Bio:

The source...

Flows through Joanna Weston, an award winning singer-songwriter from Guildford in Surrey.

The music...

Life, love, loss and the 21st century: stories of how the timeless threads unravel today.

The delivery...

Soaring, hypnotic soprano both gutsy and fragile, riding on the wings of delicious melodies and understated arrangements, inviting you to get up close and personal, leaving you wanting more.

The tracks...

Her debut EP ‘What Do I Do?’ is available on all major download platforms, while she adds the finishing touches to her new five track EP 'Pieces of the Puzzle' which will be released shortly. Joanna can also be found on Spotify, Last FM, ReverbNation, SoundCloud, The Hype Machine and Next Big Sound.

The buzz...

Joanna’s had overseas airplay by channels like HGRNJ.org in New Jersey, and by many UK based radio stations including EKR.com and Brooklands FM where she was the featured artist with two hours of live play and chat on David Durant’s Unsigned Show. Her music was also handpicked for the ‘BBC Introducing: The South’ show, hosted by Phil Jackson, where a panel of music industry professionals critique three unsigned artists from a similar genre live on air. The feedback... ‘Brilliant’. ‘Joanna’s voice is really smooth, passionate and honest sounding, it really makes you believe in her performance’. ‘She sounds similar to Martha Tilston’. ‘Reminds me of a sanded down Joni Mitchell’.

The gigs...

This year she has played at prestigious venues in and around London such as The Half Moon in Putney, The Cobden Club in Notting Hill, The Bedford in Balham, The Boileroom in Guildford, and performed to appreciative audiences at festivals such as GuilFest, Small World and even further a field doing a series of gigs in Turkey. She was also nominated for ‘Best Female Solo Artist’ at the Guildford Music Awards 2010 – an annual event where local musicians are recognised for their talent and contribution to live music.

The video’s...

Footage of Joanna performing solo and with her band can be found on Google, just type in her name!

The journey...

From birth singing, dancing and acting came as naturally as breathing. In 2004 attended vocal course at Guildford’s Academy of Contemporary Music before becoming lead singer of her first serious originals band. In 2006, she became one half of Weston and Schonning before picking up the guitar herself. First the confidence, then the response, and now the solo career creating her own unique sound.

The future...

Riding a wave in 2010: album and wider international audiences in 2011....who knows what may come next?

ALSO...

Apart from her musical career, Joanna is an avid photographer and owns an online gallery of contemporary canvas wall art that captures your imagination, visit www.joboxphotography.co.uk for more information – it doesn’t matter what Joanna does, her creativity shines through!

Member Since:.. August 01, 2009

For bookings and all general enquiries, please contact her via email on jo@joannaweston.com

Influences:.. Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Neil Young. Her more recent musical influences are many, varied and include artists such as Beth Orton, Annie Lennox, Sinead O’Connor, Feist, Tracy Chapman, Eddi Reader, Roisin Murphy, Ray Lamontagne and John Mayer…..the list goes on and on.

Sounds Like:.. Martha Tilston, Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell

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