Jo is currently play-listed on RTE 1 and throughout Europe with ‘When We Were Young’ the first single, featuring soul legend Michael McDonald’s, from Jo’s new studio album recorded in Nashville, ‘People We Become’.
From a standing start, Jo has played around 100 festivals since setting out some 5 years ago - many as a headliner - across a number of countries. In 2013, Jo was one of only 12 (otherwise household name) a
rtists to play ParkPop in The Hague - one of Europe’s largest festivals - to 300,000 people. In 2015, she was one of Bluesfest’s headline acts alongside Tom Jones, Van Morrison and Tedeschi Trucks at the O2 in London.
She has been doing her own headline tours for the last 4 years - flagship shows include Jazz Cafe (London), Paradiso (Amsterdam) and travels for the first time to New York in March 2017 to play her debut show at Joe’s Pub (Rolling Stone’s top 10 venues in America).
In 2013 her ‘Do-It-Yourself’ debut album ‘Dirt On My Tongue’ was released to much critical acclaim (making a number of ‘best of’ lists around the globe) and was subsequently licensed to major label V2 (Adele, Mumfords etc) in Europe where it made the Dutch album charts, following mainstream TV and radio appearances.
Amnesty International invited Jo to be one of a handful of artists to appear at Amnesty’s ‘Ambassador of Conscience’ Awards in Berlin in 2015. There she performed for, and with, the award winner Joan Baez (also Patti Smith). Jo continues to work alongside Amnesty in the fight for human rights.
Winner of ‘Best Female Vocalist’ at the 2014 British Blues Awards, Jo will be performing tracks from her latest album, which has been described by esteemed critics as ‘an instant classic’.
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