It took a while for the wonderful singer and harpist Joanna Newsom to start her sold-out show at Town Hall last night. Lou Reed slumped in an aisle seat, looking unamused. He puckered his lips absentmindedly and stared straight ahead. He sat one row behind Ms. Newsom’s companion, Andy Samberg, and his friends from Saturday Read More
“We are here to celebrate all the beautiful people, and tonight you are all beautiful,” said David Hershkovitz, publisher of Paper magazine as he took the stage at Hiro Ballroom to introduce Joanna Newsom.
The crinkly-voiced neo-folkist graces the cover of the magazine’s April “Beautiful People” issue, in honor of which many beautiful New Yorkers Read More
The hummingbird-voiced harpist Joanna Newsom played the first of two shows with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM last night, and it wasn’t cutesy or quirky or kitschy.
It was glorious.
But four years ago, when she was 22 years and two months old, Ms. Newsom’s debut, The Milk Eyed Mender, an Read More
Harpist-turned-psych folk poster girl Joanna Newsom will follow Sufjan Stevens’, um, wand waves and perform with an orchestra at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Feb. 8 next year. She’ll sing her dreamy, folk-inspired songs and pluck strings on her massive harp in Brooklyn after a two-day stay at the Sydney Opera House with the Read More
