Programme - Deepdale Festival

Polly Paulusma

Thursday - Brick Barn

Polly Paulusma's shed-recorded debut Scissors In My Pocket received international critical acclaim upon its 2004 release by One Little Independent. She toured the USA, supported Bob Dylan, Jamie Cullum, Divine Comedy and Marianne Faithfull and played Glastonbury. In 2012, she founded Wild Sound, now an OLI folk imprint, and signed nine artists. She completed her PhD in 2020, which informed her eighth album Invisible Music - folk songs that influenced Angela Carter (**** The Guardian) and her book (Bloomsbury, 2022). She tutors for Arvon, Cambridge and ICMP. Her ninth and tenth albums The Pivot Upon Which the World Turns (2022) and its sister When Violent Hot Pitch Words Hurt (2023) were recently released to critical acclaim; she is now working on a collaboration with double bassist Jon Thorne exploring relationships between song and prose.

'complete, pure and personal' - MOJO Magazine

Kathryn & Polly, who are playing on Thursday night of Deepdale Festival 2023, are label buddes at One Little Independent Recrods. They met on a song writing retreat, and have written songs together. They supported each other over lockdown, and being fans of each other's work it seemed a foregone conclusion that they would tour together. We are very pleased that we are one of the stops on their Big Sky Tour.