Listen to Julia Read, and you will hear a classically trained heir to Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, and Laurie Anderson. An ambitious composer/lyricist, singer, and fiddler, she queers the field of neo-folk performers like Joanna Newsom and Regina Spektor.

O You Would

This song was made out of the names of people

Are You In

Bones

Someone

Gave Light

Phoney

Fireworks

Hollywood

Cloudmouth

Face Me

Listen to Julia Read, and you will hear a classically trained heir to Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, and Laurie Anderson. An ambitious composer/lyricist, singer, and fiddler, she queers the field of neo-folk performers like Joanna Newsom and Regina Spektor. On stage, Julia Read conjures a singularly captivating, subversively calm and dangerous magic. On her debut album, Go On Go, she sings of monsters and witches, of the bones of visibility and invisibility, of bodily presence and absence. Julia Read’s arresting music creates a state of tension between internal experience and the external world. When she takes the stage, we are drawn into this perilous place, beguiled  by both its privacy and exposure.  
She collaborates with many musicians, including Chris Pureka, Geo Wyeth, and Nicole Reynolds.

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