I’ll be touring in Germany and Belgium in March, with my new sparring partner, Oaio. We have a lot in common except that she also sings in French and Spanish. She once lived in Argentina and that left a mark on her. It’s been a while I have not co-booked shows with a friend so THAT sounds like a proper re-boot.

03.17 Paris @ FGO, 8PM
03.18 Bruxelles (be) @ La Vieille Chéchette, 6:30 PM
03.19 Düsseldorf (de) @ Fox, 8 PM
03.20 Bochum (de) @ Maarbruecke*, 4 PM
03.21 Osnabrück (de) @ Living room show*
03.22 Emden (de) @ Einstein, 8 PM
03.24 Brussels (be) @ The Crazy Circle, 8 PM
03.25 Mons (be) @ Le LA du Hautbois, 8 PM
03.26 Lille (fr) @ Les Sarrazins, 8 PM
03.31 Lille (fr) @ J’en suis, j’en reste (LGBTQ festival)
* Private shows, e-mail me for more details

Additional gig:
Pollyanna + David & Marla Celia (CAN/DE)
03.30 Boeschepe (fr) @ Brockland

And please note I’ll be back in Berlin on May 28th and in Leipzig on May 29th (more details soon)

I’ll be touring solo to celebrate the launch out of “Polly & The Fine Feathers” on Solaris Empire Records:
05.02.2020 Tübingen (D) @ Café Haag
06.02.2020 Stuttgart (D) @ Wohnzimmerkonzert*
07.02.2020 Soultz (F) @ Médiathèque
19.02.2020 Lille (F) @CCL
22.02.2020 Wuppertal (D) @ Zweistein
23.02.20 Duisburg (D) @ Wohnzimmerkonzert*
24.02.20 Düsseldorf (D) @ Mosaïk
25.02.20 Bochum (D) @ Neuland
26.02.20 Berlin (D) @ Schokoladen
27.02.20 Wildemann (D) @ YogaZentrum Harz
* E-mail us to sign in.
More info on our tour dates page.

Special thanks to Rainer Stosberg for the pic (live at Schokoladen, Berlin, on 26.02.20)

Here it is!
Our album “Polly & the Fine Feathers” will be out in Germany, on Solaris Empire Records, on January 24th.
For our German friends, we have set up a special tracklist with a previously unreleased bonus song.

For the time of her third album, the French folkster Pollyanna switches her name to “Polly & the Fine Feathers”, focusing on the trio that gave life to these 12 songs. Indeed, this new record was born from her meeting with two Paris jazzmen: Abdesslem Gherbi and François Fuchs.
Abdesslem is an funk and New-Orleans drummer, familiar with American jazz clubs. He also teaches Gamelan at the Paris “Cité de la Musique”. François Fuchs is an omnivorous doublebassist who loves to play anything from the Cramps to free jazz, soul (Kimberose) or edgy Turkish traditional music.

“Fine Feathers make fine birds” is an English proverb. Pollyanna wanted, with these two gentlemen, to dress her songs up in country-bluesy colours, reminiscent of Jolie Holland or classics like Patsy Cline. Most of these songs have been written on the road, while touring in Tennessee folk clubs.

The album also takes steps sideways to traditional musics. The trio’s inspiration sails across oceans, cultures and ages. They have a warm and nostalgic sound, enlighted here and there by a flitting violin, delicate horns or a musical saw. All this actually brings details to Pollyanna’s sincere and heartwarming songwriting, with combines a pop sense of melodies and carefully crafted lyrics. English, which is the language of tourism, business and social networks, is for her an endless source of images she loves to play with, both light and deep.

She has previously released a more indie-rock album, “The Mainland”, also on Solaris Empire, in 2016, critically acclaimed on both sides of the Rhine. Since then, Pollyanna has been playing hundreds of shows in Germany, in clubs or festivals, but also in living rooms. There, she met a crowd of « ordinary » citizens, outside the music business highways : electricians, actors, car engineers, teachers, refugees, students, psychologists, patients in hospitals or at home, disabled or not, alternative youngsters living in the woods with no money and no passport, local politicians and even sex workers. A unique take on contemporary Germany, also very typical : Pollyanna easily fits in the DIY grassroot tide that overwhelms music in the 21st century.

This journey connects her with her former job (journalism) and the great tradition of travelling singer-songwriters (Woodie Guthrie and Dylan’s children). Thanks to an amazing voice and a solid guitar, she can display her songs in solo or with a band with equal intensity. So, even if she likes to tour with a light set, on her records, she takes a chance to expand her musical landscapes far beyond the simple « guitar and vocals » thing. She surrounds herself with the nicest musicians she meets on the road to write, with each album, a human adventure, and build up a unique sound mood. « Recording with Pollyanna is like going on a field trip ! », her violist once said. Get on board with them !

A fair collection of gigs across three countries, from the South of France to Berlin, in solo or duos (with a drummer, a violinist or a cellist):

03.10.19 Brest (F) @ Le Boucan (duo)
04.10.19 Cleguer (F) @ La Longère (duo)
11.10.19 Arras (F) @ Le Rat perché
12.10.19 Lille (F) @ Le Caf& diskaire
26.10.19 Toulouse (F) @ Café du Burgaud
27.10.19 Rabastens (F) @ Le Pré vert
2.11.19 Düsseldorf (D) @ Living room show*
03.11.19 Utrecht (NL) @ Studio Patrick
05.11.19 Emden (D) @ Café einstein
06.11.19 Berlin (D) @ Ä
09.11.19 Munich (D) @ Living room show*
10.11.19 Karlsruhe (D) @ Living room show*
15.11.19 Paris (Malakoff) (F) @ MQB
21.11.19 Sommières (F) @ L’EstàMinet
22.11.19 Congénies (F) @ La Diligence
23.11.19 Sommières (F) @ Le Cart
01.12.19 Arras (F) @ Couleur Café (quartet)
07.12.19 Douai (F) @ La Taverne du grand Hacquebart (duo)

More infos on our Shows page and on our Facebook

A very nice collection of private and public places in Germany and Belgium this fall: cafés, whiky clubs, a big alternative room in Hamburg, Berlin folk clubs and a blues venue in Liege. Can’t wait!

20/09 – Hambourg (DE) @ Cafe Raum & Zeit
22/09 – Wuppertal (DE) @ Zweistein
25/09 – Bochum (DE) @ Neuland
26/09 – Münster (DE) @ Watermark
06/10 – Seneffe (BE) @ Les Melomanes
4/11 – Hamburg (DE) @ Sängerknaben & Sirenen, Gängeviertel,
5/11 – Lübeck (DE) @ Sternschnuppe
7/11 – Berlin (DE) @ Ä, avec Alice Rose from Denmark
8/11 – Berlin (DE) @ Artliners, avec Kitty Solaris
10/11 – Liège (Luik, Lüttich) (BE) @ Blues-Sphere

Our most recent albums, The Mainland and Polly & the Fine Feathers, are back on Spotify, Deezer, etc. Hurray! All with a brand new artist profile. At last we are ready for the 21st century.

The Mainland on Deezer | Spotify
Polly & the Fine Feathers on Deezer | Spotify

And our profile on Deezer | Spotify

Listen unlimitedly! And don’t forget, we also work hard to make beautiful physical packages in Digipack and vinyl, with illustrated sleeves and booklets, etc. and that’s here.