Joanne Louise Parker

www.joannelouiseparker.com

“mystical and enchanting”
“pure, expressive & emotive”
“a mellifluous honey toned voice that touches the soul”
“voice that makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck”
“an evocative style delivered with resonant clarity”

Joanne Louise Parker’s forte is a cappella where she has been known to silence a chattering room in seconds with a voice which fans say “makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck”.
Bought up against the harsh, yet beautiful landscape of the flat Cambridgeshire Fenland, her musical apprenticeship has been rich and varied ranging from classical through folk and jazz to popular music. Joanne’s folk roots blues style observes the spiritual and emotional landscape.
After moving on to sing backing vocals for trip hop band Auburn, she re-discovered Joni Mitchell’s music while nursing a hot chocolate in a Vancouver Island Coffee House and nine months later stages a sell out concert of Mitchell’s earlier works in a remote 12th Century Church.
A regular on the open mic scene in both the UK and overseas, she has travelled extensively and performed her songs to audiences great and small from the West Coast of the US to as far east as Russia. Joanne loves performing in venues of acoustic and architectural interest and has just completed a tour of ancient churches entitled “Acoustic, Rhythm & Pews”. Her Live EP was recorded after an impromptu visit to Lestat’s coffee house in San Diego and contains the perfect example of what you can expect from Joanne’s live performance.

Worshippers of Ice is a haunting a capella song about the speed skaters of The Fens.
“Grandfather to father, father to son, they have the knowledge and they pass it on.”
Movie Star explores our obsession with the scrutinisation of celebrity.
“ Are you perfect on the inside, will we still love you when the flame has died forever?”
Burned Your Bridges is about being on the receiving end of broken promises.
“And you come to me with your grand scheme, yeah but, you can’t have it always..”
Sointula, inspired by Bill Gaston’s book of the same name is the story of a woman stifled by the trappings of material life, leaves everything and paddles up the Vancouver Coastline to find her son.
“Fog has stolen the colour today, I paddle forward on my way, with a grim determination to reach my destination”