Josephine Foster with Colby Nathan

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Josephine Foster and her haunting vocal quaver and slow-moving songs recall several eras of American folk music while occupying a mysterious space all their own. She makes her SPACE debut with David Shapiro accompanying on guitar.

Josephine Foster is a Colorado composer and performer whose music plays games with our ideas of time and space. The Nashville Scene describes her work a “fusion of art song and American folk music” and the former opera student is “known to breathe new life into archaic forms, embodying the cultural archaeology of Harry Smith’s old weird America, and has lent her characteristic mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to over two decades of recordings” writes Blank Forms.

A “Vibrating Voice to Shake the Soul” – NPR

You might call Ms. Foster’s eerie warbling old-fashioned, except that it evokes a scrambled past that exists only in her own vision: mountain songs that never were, spaced-out hybrids that never will be.  – The New York Times

Colby Nathan‘s performances are a grab-bag of uncommon possibilities, with a free-wheeling spontaneity spilling across noisy loops, introverted sing-song, suitcases of toys, and the occasional costume change. He’s a welcome addition in a world always in need of more honesty, a good jostling, or a healthy dose of pure eccentricity.