Alexa Woodward
"Spoon" Available for Free Download
US Tour Dates Announced
Alexa Woodward is leaving her career in law for the banjo. She's taking it all on the road too. For the next three months, Alexa will be touring through the US in a 1984 VW bus in support of her new album, Speck. Check out the single "Spoon" which has been released for free download.
Raised in the south with a documentary film maker for a father and a mother of many spiritual persuasions, Alexa Woodward's music is shaped by her Bible belt upbringing, her seedy journeys in the northeast, and her life in community living in New York City. With a sound that has been likened to Iron and Wine, Rufus Wainright and Gillian Welch, this banjo playing singer/songwriter received acclaim as a semifinalist in New York's largest songwriting contest, Jezebel Music's Williamsburg Live Songwriter Competition, and is revered for her performances in unconventional locations (most notably the Austin Texas sewer in January 2009, where 300 brave underground attendees were politely evacuated through manholes by local police).
The Speck Tour will take Alexa across the United States between May and August, starting with her first leg in the South (as seen below).
5/22 Tantra Coffee House - San Marcos, TX
5/23 Kerrville folk festival - Kerrville, TX
6/10 Cafe Mundi - Austin, TX
6/11 Church of the Holy Spoke - Lubbock, TX
6/12 SECRET SHOW w/ Carlosaur, Eva Ave, and more - Albuquerque, NM
6/13 Santa Fe Brewery - Santa Fe, NM
6/19 Telluride Bluegrass - Telluride, CO
6/27 Genghis Cohen - Los Angeles, CA
7/15 Laurelthurst - Portland, OR
7/16 SECRET SHOW - Seattle, WA
7/18 Eugene Saturday Market - Eugene, OR
7/19 Sam Bond's Garage - Eugene, OR
"Woodward is a New York (and sometimes Austin and soon to be itinerant) songwriter and banjo-player who scrapped law career to play music. She's been compared with Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart, but isn't quite as loopy as either, to her music's credit. " - Austin Statesman
"Armed with a banjo (that at times comes across more like a harp), a full, animated voice, instantly memorable lyrics and simply excellent songwriting, Alexa Woodward does it well." - Resonance
"Woodward's easygoing second album, Speck, sounds like a mildly psychedelic Gillian Welch in a self-imposed artist's retreat." - Jezebel Music