Programme - Deepdale Festival

Polly Paulusma

Saturday - Orchard

We are really looking forward to welcoming Polly back to Deepdale Festival. Her debut was in 2023, when she performed solo and with Kathryn Williams on Thursday night. This year she will be gracing the Orchard Stage.

After landing a first in English from Cambridge, Paulusma signed in 2003 to Björk's label One Little Indian (now Independent) and to Sony/ATV Publishing, releasing her debut album 'Scissors In My Pocket' in 2004 to international critical acclaim.

In the years that followed she released the sister-album to 'Scissors', 'Cosmic Rosy Spine Kites' (2005), 'Fingers and Thumbs' (2007) produced by Ken Nelson at Liverpool's legendary Parr Street studios and its sister 'Fights & Numbers' (2008), film soundtrack 'Clear Lake' (2011), 'Leaves from the Family Tree' (2012) and its sister 'The Small Feat of my Reverie' (2014), 'Invisible Music: folk songs that influenced Angela Carter' (2021), 'The Pivot on Which The World Turns' (2022) and its sister 'When Violent Hot Pitch Words Hurt' (2013).

'the finest young British female singer-songwriter to emerge over the last 12 months' - Uncut ****

'complete, pure and personal' - MOJO ****

Paulusma founded indie-folk label Wild Sound in 2012, and sold it in 2016 to One Little Independent as a folk imprint in order to do a PhD in relations between song and literature. Her albums collectively have achieved international critical acclaim; she has played Glastonbury, V Festival and Cambridge Folk Festival, and has toured the USA, the UK and Europe supporting Bob Dylan, Jamie Cullum, Coldplay, Divine Comedy, and Marianne Faithfull.

In autumn 2023 she completed a much-lauded 20-date double-headline tour of the UK with collaborator and friend Kathryn Williams.

Paulusma is making a new album with acclaimed producer Ethan Johns, slated for release in 2024.