The Tribe of Heart movie 'Peaceable Kingdom - The Journey Home' featuring 4 songs by Joy, including the powerful 'Poor Man's Greed', has its world premiere weekend at the Moondance International Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado on 26-27 September 2009.

Click here to go to the Peaceable Kingdom movie website or click on the image to go to Joy's profile on the website... read about Joy, her activism and her connection to the movie. Then look up where it will be showing and book your tickets!

Posted: 30 April 2009

Singer/songwriter Joy Askew talks about her music and her advocacy on behalf of farmed and other animals.
Click Here to see the video...

Also, check out this video of Joy's piano skills alongside Jim Boggia at Steel City, Phoenixville on Feb 21, 2009
Click Here to see the video...

Posted: 2 April 2009

New video! New song!
Episode 1 of Jonah Smith's Cumberland Loft Sessions
This is an informal music show hosted by Jonah Smith, with Joy guesting in episode 1, performing 'Had a Bad Day'.
Click Here to see the video...

Posted: 14 January 2009

On New Year's Day WAMC aired 51%, a radio show hosted by Susan Barnett, featuring an interview with Joy and also some music. (Joy's interview is towards the end of the program).

(click icon to hear Joy's segment and click here to hear the whole program)

Posted: 13 January 2009

President Elect Obama with Joy... (click on image to enlarge)

"I am very impressed....by the new President of The United States and.....by myself- for having this photograph taken with him!" - Joy

Posted: 21 August 2008

Here's news from my friends at BRIGHTER GREEN. Please take a look at this!

Mia MacDonald, under the auspices of her new non-profit organization Brighter Green, has just compiled an extensive report on China's environmental, human health, animal welfare, and food security challenges in the wake of their adoption of the Western meat-intensive diet and intensive farming of animals. The introduction has even been translated into Chinese. This is the first in a series of papers that will look at the same phenomenon of globalization in Brazil, India, and Ethiopia, coming Fall 2008.

Here are the links:
Report:
http://www.brightergreen.org/files/brightergreen_china_print.pdf
Website: http://www.brightergreen.org/n.php?id=23
Blog: http://brightergreen.org/entry.php?id=51

Posted: 8 August 2008

Watch the movie "The Business of Being Born" A new hot-topic documentary about giving birth in the USA. Joy's music can be heard in the movie.
Go to http://www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com for info.
Rent it on DVD!

Posted: 23 May 2008

Joy is featured on the Audio Portrait section of the ASCAP web

site. Click here to hear this fascinating insight into her background and influences, along with clips of the songs from "The Pirate Of Eel Pie". You can also hear Joy discuss some of the songs, their history and how they came about.

Additionally, if you want to hear the Audio Portrait Joy presented when the Echo album was released, click here.

Posted: 13 April 2008 : Review

Joy Askew
The Pirate Of Eel Pie
(Red Parlor)

Anyone who can front a rock band called Bitch, perform with Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Joe Jackson and Rodney Crowell, among others, then form an electronic jazz duo with Takuya Nakamura called Echo definitely has it all going on. But what’s most striking about Joy Askew’s new album, The Pirate Of Eel Pie, is how totally original it is. Askew’s songs are an emotional rollercoaster, each different than the previous one, and show such a fearlessness that it’s a wonder she isn’t better known. From “Hip These Days” to “Jimmy’s Gone Now” to “Jack Kerouac” is a dazzling run through modern music, featuring folk, rock, classical and even electronic influences that all fit together perfectly. Produced by Askew and, on some songs, Ricky Fataar, these ten songs are a breathtaking example of just how good music still is. Doubters are directed immediately to the last track, “Poor Man’s Greed.” It’s as strong a statement of compassion as we can expect to hear, so far beyond the fear masquerading as strength these days that it’ll chill your bones. Stunning.

- Bill Bentley, Sun Community Newspapers

Posted: 9 April 2008

PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP April 12th POSTPONED!!

Due to illness and a lot of people being away April 12th is not
proving to be the best day for the next workshop, so it will be postponed to April 26th. Hopefully the people who signed up for the 12th can 'roll over' to the 26th!

There are also still a couple more performance slots open!

Please let Joy know ASAP if you would like to participate and if those who signed for the 12th can make the 26th. Full details on the dates page.

Posted: 26 January 2008

NEW VIDEO

OF JOY PERFORMING "THE PIRATE OF EEL PIE" LIVE AT MARION'S MARQUEE LOUNGE IN NYC!

Recorded on Monday, 3 December 2007 Joy, playing with Steve Elliott and Tony Scherr . Click on the image to view the video

Taking place on 26 January 2008

PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP/MASTERCLASS WITH  SINGER SONGWRITER JOY ASKEW
At Googies Lounge at The Living Room in New York City
Venue and time details on the dates page.

Joy Askew has performed concert tours all over the world with such luminary artists as Peter Gabriel, Joe Jackson, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne and Nashville's own Rodney Crowell. She toured with these artists as a musician and background singer and also was featured on solo singing spots. 
Faced with the challenge of so much diversity, Joy studied voice throughout these years with New York teacher David Jones. She practiced and created  vocal exercises,  developing a technique that rose to all the challenges of performing on big stages and being part of a heavy touring schedule, often performing on live TV in between shows.

Coming off the road, Joy began to release her own CD's ( 6 to date) and perform in smaller venues and clubs around the USA. She found the 'intimacy' of a small club to be sometimes  more of a challenge than the arena at Madison Square Garden. While in New York, Joy began to teach others the voice technique she learned from her teacher and from her own experiences of the last twenty five years.

This Performance Workshop/Masterclass will spotlight 7 singers who will perform 1 song each. Joy will coach each participant on their performance and will include the audience in some of the exercises. All the performers and auditors are encouraged to pitch in with positive critiquing only.

For all enquiries to be a participating performer click here.  

Some of Joy's students have included:
Melanie Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Ben Lee
Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes)
Tim Finn
Angelina Jolie
Claire Danes

Posted: 28 December 2007

A STAR IN THE MAKING -CHECK OUT THE YOUNG DRUMMER IN THIS VIDEO!

Joy's performance of Joni Mitchell's The River at the Xmas Xtravaganza in NJ on Dec 22nd featuring Glen Burtnick, G.E Smith and many more... Click on the image to view the video

Posted: 18 October 2007

A licensing deal for Joy's newest CD "The Pirate of Eel Pie" has just been signed by Indie label Red Parlor.
Red Parlor will distiribute the record worldwide in 2008!
As of now the CD is unavailable to buy but will be back in Spring 2008 in stores repackaged and online in many places including iTunes. Look out for it!

Posted: 25 September 2007

Joy participated in the fundraiser called 'Barak on Broadway' at the New Amsterdam Theater in NYC last night. She played and sang the song 'Woodstock' with Broadway star Christine Ebersol (Grey Gardens) Click on the image for an enlargement

Posted: 12 September 2007

Check out these of pics of Joy from this past summer in London and France...

Photos by Ana Maria Velez • Click on the image for an enlargement

On June 5th 2007 Marit Bergman (in red) opened for "The Pipettes" at the Highline Ballroom in New York City, and adding vocals at the performance were (left to right) Joy, Nina Persson (the Cardigans) and Cat Martino. We hope to have a webcast link soon for footage of the show. Stay tuned... Click on the image for an enlargement

Posted: 10 May 2007

The following review appeared on www.goodtimesmag.com:

Joy Askew

The Living Room
New York City

Joy Askew continued her five-part residence at The Living Room with his solo upstairs show, performing songs that were newer than those on her March 6 CD release "The Pirate of Eel Pie" and delving and diving solo into many of those tracks as well.

Askew is best known as the keyboardist and singer who, in reverse order, released the acclaimed down-tempo dance synth CD of torch song standards “Echo,” toured with and appeared on albums by Peter Gabriel and Joe Jackson, and backed Laurie Anderson on tour. Her background is obscure to many except diehard fans, but she actually majored on saxophone at Jazz College in England. Her career took wing and she ended up working with Anderson, Jack Bruce, and others shortly after arriving in New York in the 1980s, even as she took flight from her small town back in England.

It is this flight that is the subject of her new CD, The Pirate Of Eel Pie, flight from but recollection of the past, and flight of the captive bird on the CD cover (Askew is a strong animal rights advocate). The pirate of the CD title refers to a Pirate Radio station that inspired her fellow artists and dreamers as she was beginning her career and her escape to America and success.

The show opened with new material in the bubbly piano-accompanied "Bird In Flight," about birds trapped on ledges, but perhaps also being spiritually trapped. This was followed by a partial set of songs from the new album. The bio-jazzy “London Rain” wa a highlight. More autobiographical material followed, including "Walked Under Waterfalls," a personal reflection of the singer on the death and its impact of Jimi Hendrix, Martin Luther King, and John Lennon.

One song missing from the April 23 set and which caught my ear on the CD and at the release show was “War (Why Don’t You Go Home),” written about Guantonamo, car bombs, and Iraq from a child’s perspective. It is a powerful song. “War’s” goth minor key riff and ascending, beseeching chorus showcases Askew’s skilled writing approach on the CD, available to listen to and order on CDBaby.com and JoyAskew.com.

The band premiere was at the Living Room; upstairs, her solo Googie’s Lounge evenings continue on Wednesdays through May. Askew announced that as she evolved her approach to the show, she would add guests as she did in her 2006 Joy Diversion Series at Joe’s Pub (which included Michelle Shocked, Suzie Tyrell, Richard Julian, Willie Nile, and other friends “dropping in”). She also works the most impressive delay pedal ever heard, building walls of a capella vocals for originals and Dylan cover tunes. The series continues through May and promises to be innovative and edgy in this same journeying vein.

– Photos and text by Jon Wettingfeld

Posted: 9 April 2007

The Pirate of Eel Pie is reviewed in Satya online magazine's April/May '07 issue:

"Joy Askew is a minstrel for animal activists, regularly performing at animal related events. As a vegan, Joy's compassion for animal extends to her excellent new CD. In "Hip These Days," Joy sings, "In between your mouth and the plate is the most significant choice you're gonna make." With soulful songs that range from bright to melancholy, covering topics from advocacy to war to London's music scene in the 1970's, Joy has succeeded in creating a work that celebrates both music and activim.

(Click here to go to the Satya article online)

Posted: 28 March 2007

"The Pirate of Eel Pie" is now available to purchase on the 'Women of a Certain Age Entertainment' website (click here), and also from CDBaby (click here).

Posted: 26 February 2007

Come celebrate the release of "The Pirate of Eel Pie" with Joy at a FREE performance at the Living Room in New York City on 6 March 2007 at 9:00pm. You can also buy your copy of the CD when you are there, and get it signed by Joy too! To buy the CD online click here... you can also sample clips of the tracks on the albums page.

Posted: 1 February 2007

My song "Hip These Days" is a finalist in an International songwriting competition. You can help me win!!

All finalists' songs are posted on the ISC website. The songs are included in the People's Voice - an online voting contest that allows the public to listen to all the finalists' songs and vote for their favorite. Be sure to tell all your friends, family, and fans, so that they can vote! Voting will take place from February 1 through February 28, 2007.

You can start voting now at http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/pvwelcome2006.htm

Posted: 28 August 2006

Click here to read about Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary in a recent Daily News story, with a mention of Joy's 9 September performance at the Sanctuary near Woodstock, NY.

Click here for an interview with Jenny Brown from Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary on WBAI. It is a wonderful speech explaining some of the truths about downed animals in the food chain.

Posted: 29 July 2006

Joy is currently hosting a series at Joe's Pub in NYC called "The JoY Diversion" which features 3 guests each time. Go to the photos page to see who has already appeared on the show. The next JoY Diversion is on 10 September. For more details go to the dates page.

Also, take a look at this fun pic that was unearthed of Joy (c.1979) with the OK Band. Joy is on the right...

Posted: 11 April 2006

This Review just in (from the Observer in London):

Yungchen Lhamo
Ama (Real World)
Since fleeing Tibet as a young woman in 1990, Lhamo has quietly established herself as one of the world's most exquisite voices, the purity and scale of her singing conjuring up the vastness of her Himalayan homeland. Backings seem almost superfluous - a touch of new-age synth and her meditative qualities risk turning into something from a scented candle shop. This third album avoids all such perils, adding the lightest of touches from violin, flute, drum and even an African kora. There are laments, but also earthy evocations of delight and contentment, notably on 'Tara', alongside guest singer Joy Askew.
- Neil Spencer

Posted: 10 January 2006

Joy is honored to be named "Activist of the Month" at Farm Sanctuary! Please go to www.farmsanctuary.org and check out the volunteer work and teaching she has been doing around NYC.

Posted: 1 December 2005

Joy will be on Air America LIVE! on Saturday night (12/3/05) between 9.15pm and 10 pm on The Laura Flanders show. She will be playing some songs and talking about her volunteer work and activism for anilmal rights and against factory farming.
You can tune in and listen or go to http://www.airamericaradio.com/listen

Posted: 18 August 2005

Joy recently played a concert in the South of France and was joined by jazz flautist Mark Alban Lotz and violinist Tom Sykes. View Mark's site at http://www.lotzofmusic.com

Posted: 27 July 2005

Joy will be featured on a WACBIZ podcast the week of the 22nd, for more info go to http://www.wacbiz.com

Posted: 6 June 2005

I am part of a new documentary being shot in NYC, "Where's The Music At?" I did an extensive interview for them last week and they will be shooting my only live show in NYC this Summer on June 22nd at Rockwood Music Hall (see details on dates page).

Posted: 1 June 2005

WFAS Art Benefit: this Friday, 3 June!!

As you know, animal welfare is a cause close to my heart. So, you can help support the critters at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary and find something unique to hang in your home at the art benefit! Over 85 items are for sale -- some created specifically for this auction -- and more works are being donated every day.

For more info, go to http://woodstockfas.org/auction.shtml

Posted: 23 May 2005

I am working on a new CD in San Francisco and here in New York with my friend, producer and drummer Ricky Fataar. These are personal and passionate songs written on the guitar and piano. A lot of them draw from my past, growing up in the North of England and being young in London in the 70's... a time of bedsits, Pirate Radio, American draft dodgers from the Vietnam war, musicians, painters, cold gas fire winters and dreams of escape to America.

I just had the great experience of singing on the new CD of Tibetan singer and friend Yungchen Lhamo. It will be released this Summer on Real World records. Yungchen's voice is incredible and the tracks are gorgeously produced. The album also features Annie Lennox on vocals. Watch out for it!