Perhaps better known as a founding member of Big Richard and Salomé Songbird, Joy Adams is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter with a deep love for oldtime fiddle tunes. Over the last few years, she has performed at Red Rocks, on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, PBS, NPR’s Tiny Desk, and the film scores to Netflix shows Godless and the Queen’s Gambit.
Recently she took some time off the road to record an analog album of all original songs joined by Gus Tritsch, a Pennsylvania-based multi-instrumentalist who has played the Kennedy Center, NPR’s Tiny Desk series and toured internationally with Jake Blount, and can usually be found performing all over the northeast with his band The Wild Shoats.
Both make music that is introspective and raw in its search for connection, found through songs and gritty fiddle tunes that are both old and new and maybe neither.
Together, the two blend their voices and varied influences in a diverse collection of original songs and oldtime music.