with support from Charlie Franklin
The Harrison, Kings Cross
Friday 10th April
Doors 7:30pm, Live Music 8:15pm
Tickets £12 Advance £15
Paula Fong is an Americana singer-songwriter from Los Angeles with a sound that can vary from lilting trad folk, to upbeat country toe tappers, to soulful grit. During her youth, she spent many summers in the French countryside, and was deeply influenced by the local Breton folk music. She continued to explore singing various genres from Classical to Chinese opera and eventually joined an Americana church band where the main musical focus was acoustic country and folk – the kind of music that is both spiritual and also something people can relate to in everyday life.
During that time she fell deeply in love with American roots music and became enamored with the classic voices and songwriting of Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch and Patty Griffin, but was also inspired by indie folk groups like NickelCreek and The Wailin’ Jennys. From 2015-2019 she teamed up with Seattle based singer-songwriter Tom Kell and they released two albums of co-written music. After Tom passed in 2021, Paula went on to pursue a solo project under her own name and released her first EP, Chestnut Mare, in the fall of 2024. She currently sings back up vocals and tours with Abby Posner’s band – Abby Posner and the Big Fall, is an MD for an Americana/folk music church service (think Watkin’s Family Hour if it was a church service) and was nominated as a finalist in the International Acoustic Music Awards.
Imagined from quiet rooms and candlelit corners, London-based, folk singer/songwriter Charlie Franklin arrives flush with romance, sincerity and bucolic embrace. Born out of a necessary reaction to the overwhelming pace of life in the city, Charlie’s music nestles down in a contemplative space between the push/pull chaos of London, and the rarefied sanctuary of woods, talkative streams and open sky. Her sound lies somewhere between contemporary indie-folk, old-school acoustic, and romantic blues – golden hour, earthy folk with a steady thread of deep introspection.