Karen Jonas duo
Presented by: Backroads House Concerts, Hertford| 0 | HERTFORD: Backroads House Concerts (info) |
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| P | Saturday 6th September, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 7:00pm Start time: 8:00pm |
| . | All ages |
| C | Music - Folk/blues/world |
Event information
Karen Jonas is touring on the back of her absolutely outstanding 2024 album "The Rise and Fall of American Kitsch" - an ode of love and hate to things we absolutely don't need but buy anyway.
“I love vintage kitsch: atomic stars, plastic pink flamingos, Elvis lamps where the pole comes straight out of his head.” Jonas says. A fearless artist and colourful storyteller since her debut, "Oklahoma Lottery", in 2014, she is more ambitious than ever with her seventh record. “The ‘50s birthed the concept that we can and should buy things we don’t really need. Post-war factories, the baby boom, suburbia: we started manufacturing an idea of joy that we still sell today.”
The record is full of this optimism, a technicolour portrait of vintage magic. But Jonas also sees the shadows: waste, excess, addiction. “With every new invention and fashion trend, something else lands in the trash,” she says. “It keeps me up at night. Our kids are inheriting a shopping habit and a huge pile of garbage.”
Jonas will be touring with just one member of her band (which one TBC), which should make for an intimate and extraordinary night of music. And it's a Saturday, for once! So no excuses.
