Josienne Clarke

Josienne Clarke
Josienne Clarke performing in 2019
Background information
Born	1982
Genres	indie-folk folk
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer-songwriter, composer
Instruments	Vocals guitar
Years active	2008–present
Labels	Rough Trade Records Corduroy Punk Records
Website	josienneclarke.com

Josienne Clarke is a British singer-songwriter.

From 2009 until 2018 she formed a duo with guitarist Ben Walker, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for best duo in 2017, and signing with music label Rough Trade Records,^[1][2] with whom she made two duo albums, one record with her band PicaPica and her solo record ‘In All Weather’ in 2019. She also recorded an EP ‘Such A Sky’ with jazz pianist Kit Downes in 2017. She has toured world-wide and has supported folk musician Richard Thompson on one of his tours.^[1]

In 2019 she formed a band called PicaPica. The band recorded a studio album called Together & Apart.^[1] The Financial Times wrote in 2019 she was "recognised as a rising star of British folk".^[1] She subsequently signed with the label Corduroy Punk Records to bring out more solo albums.

Of her 2023 solo album Onliness (which is a re-recording of some previous work), Folkradio wrote: "a graceful melancholy in the melodies and a bird-like fragility to her singing coating an underlayer of grit and menace you would be foolish to ignore".^[3]