Jade Bird Coming To First Avenue On October 4th

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21-year-old singer/songwriter, Jade Bird, has just released her debut self-titled album. This comes after a growing success with the release of EPs and singles. Based out of London, the young singer has been traveling the world playing festivals and opening for acts such as Father John Misty and Jason Isbell. Tickets are available HERE

Accompanying Jade Bird is the English pop band, Flyte.  The group has been releasing music since 2017 and has had a steady growth in their fanbase. Their latest release, White Roses is an EP with dreamy and upbeat pop tunes that will be sure to translate well on stage.

“My heart is so blue,” sings Jade Bird on her song I Get No Joy. “I’m singing for nothing.” It’s a fakeout, of course: while the 21-year-old songwriter’s debut album certainly chases emotions from their depths to their peaks, there’s no lack of purpose here. “I’ve never wavered in terms of wanting to do music,” she says. “But you often waver in terms of how you can change it, how you can add to a field that’s so saturated and if it’s worth it. Is my contribution going to do anything, going to help anyone? And it does. You get young girls coming up to you who want to play the guitar and listen to visceral music and play and shout, and that’s sick.”

It’s not so long since Jade was one of those young girls, searching for inspiration and release in music. Born to an army family in Northumbria, she moved first to London and then to Germany, before her parents split when she was seven, and Jade and her mother moved to Bridgend, South Wales, to live with her grandmother, whose marriage had also foundered. In Bridgend, Jade learned the piano; one of her mother’s partners introduced her to the gothic, psychedelic, country-tinged alt-rock of Mazzy Star, her first love and the first thing she learned to play on guitar. That early taste of the good stuff led her on to classic country music – Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton. “That’s the stuff I really connected with, the struggling songs,” she says.

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