Josienne Clarke

Josienne Clarke is a British singer-songwriter. From 2009 until 2018 she formed a duo with guitarist Ben Walker, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for best duo in 2017, and signing with music label Rough Trade Records, with whom she made two duo albums, one record with her band PicaPica and her solo record ‘In All Weather’ in 2019. She also recorded an EP ‘Such A Sky’ with jazz pianist Kit Downes in 2017. She has toured world-wide and has supported folk musician Richard Thompson on one of his tours.

In 2019 she formed a band called PicaPica. The band recorded a studio album called Together & Apart. The Financial Times wrote in 2019 she was "recognised as a rising star of British folk". She subsequently signed with the label Corduroy Punk Records to bring out more solo albums.

Of her 2023 solo album Onliness (which is a re-recording of some previous work), Folkradio wrote: "a graceful melancholy in the melodies and a bird-like fragility to her singing coating an underlayer of grit and menace you would be foolish to ignore".

In 2024 she was interviewed by Neil Steinberg for the Chicago Sun Times regarding her song Chicago.