JUL 13-16 | AMERICAN ROOTS WEEK
Jul 21, 2023
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
“A magnetic performer and a rising star in the folk world” (NPR), singer, songwriter, and harpist Lizzie No is an artist gaining worldwide acclaim and pioneering the use of her instrument in contemporary folk music. She makes her first SFJAZZ appearance with a collection of new original music and selections from her 2016 debut Hard Won and 2019 follow-up album Vanity.
The daughter of a church organist, the artist born Lizzie Quinlan was encouraged to take up an instrument as a child, and being a creative soul who immediately sought the most outlandish and unlikely option available, picked the harp — an instrument she has been devoted to since age 10.
After studying at Stanford and moving to Brooklyn in 2015, No worked widely with the folk duo Devil and the Deep Blue Sea before stepping out as a solo artist, releasing
Hard Won in 2016 — a recording Rolling Stone called “simultaneously understated and fervent.” The album boasts the brilliant closing track “Outlaw” which won the American Songwriter Lyrics Contest.
She’s toured with Iron & Wine and Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, and has showcased at South by Southwest.and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. No’s newest full-length, Vanity, kicks off with the track “Narcissus” — a song Rolling Stone featured as a “Song You Need to Know.”
Lizzie No makes her first SFJAZZ appearance with a collection of new original music and selections from her 2016 debut Hard Won and 2019 follow-up album Vanity.
She's got a way of writing songs that are tender, incisive, gentle and intense, all at the same time
NPR
She's got a way of writing songs that are tender, incisive, gentle and intense, all at the same time
NPR
Personnel
Lizzie No harp, guitar, vocals
Lizzie No carved out her own space in the contemporary folk scene
Billboard
Personnel
Lizzie No harp, guitar, vocals
Lizzie No carved out her own space in the contemporary folk scene
Billboard
Watch & Listen
Lizzie No
Narcissus
Lizzie No
Phantom Limb
Lizzie No
Narcissus
Lizzie No
Phantom Limb
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