Esmé Patterson

Gold-selling Esmé Patterson released her long-awaited fifth full-length album, Notes from Nowhere, in October 2023; creating a genre-avoidant musical realm that blooms with honesty and magic. Now living in the woods of Tennessee, the Colorado-born singer/songwriter never fails to give her devoted following what they want – something completely new yet somehow familiar.

Esmé emerged from the wreckage of a crowded Colorado folk experiment (Paper Bird) and struck out on her own path in a 2012 solo debut, All Princes, I. Her follow-up was an AMA-nominated Song of the Year that went Gold in the US and Canada, landed Patterson performances on Letterman and Conan, and brought sold-out shows nationwide. Predictably unpredictable, she deftly ditched the folk/americana tags to offer barbed responses to male-gaze hits in 2015’s Woman to Woman, then to death, sex, and feedback in 2016’s fanged We Were Wild, from which her performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk derived.

Ever provocative, poignant, polymorphic, and prescient (her last album, the apocalypse-themed There Will Come Soft Rains, was released on the first day of COVID-19 lockdowns in March 2020), Esmé’s latest release, Notes from Nowhere, returns to the (super)natural world, evoking the chill of dead winter, parched forest lightning, midday moons, and the cicada hum of summer swamps. Esmé’s intense performances arrest her audience in ears-open shared contemplation. Her music churns and crackles until you find yourself frozen, staring into the fire.

Past Shows


Aug
25
th
2024
7th St Entry
Aug
25
th
2024
7th St Entry

Esmé Patterson

with Laura Hugo
Mar
12
th
2023
Turf Club
Mar
12
th
2023
Turf Club

Os Mutantes

with Esmé Patterson
Jul
5
th
2017
7th St Entry
Jul
5
th
2017
7th St Entry

Esmé Patterson

with Har-di-Har and Sasha Druva and The Violet Rise
Aug
1
st
2016
7th St Entry
Aug
1
st
2016
7th St Entry

Esmé Patterson

with The Awful Truth and M.T. FOYER
Oct
25
th
2015
Turf Club
Oct
25
th
2015
Turf Club

Craig Finn

with Esmé Patterson
Oct
24
th
2015
The Assembly at the Woman’s Club
Oct
24
th
2015
The Assembly at the Woman’s Club

Craig Finn

with Esmé Patterson
Sep
15
th
2015
Mainroom
Sep
15
th
2015
Mainroom

Passenger

with Esmé Patterson
Dec
6
th
2014
The Cedar Cultural Center
Dec
6
th
2014
The Cedar Cultural Center

Shakey Graves

with Sean Rowe and Esmé Patterson

More Shows

Feb
19
th
Fine Line

BoomBox

Feb
19
th
7th St Entry

Stephen Day

Apr
2
nd
Fine Line

The Birthday Massacre

with Essenger and Magic Wands
Apr
2
nd
Turf Club

Sir Woman