To buy my 2021 EP Deep Water, click here.

To buy my 2021 album Somewhere Before, click here.

ORIGINAL SONGS

Produced by Phil Dearing. Recorded and mixed at L Sound London, except These Days, Beautiful Boy, Bird, Night Swimming, Tide to You, Drink Me, Headphones Song, Find A Way, Letter to the Moon, Bright Blue Sky recorded by Ed Scolding, and Song for Susan (Live).

Jo Girdlestone is a Greenwich based songwriter who sings her own songs and accompanies herself on acoustic guitar. She regularly collaborates with exceptional fretless bass player Richard Finch Turner who is featured on the 2021 album Somewhere Before. She’s been a featured singer songwriter on BBC Radio Kent Folk and she performs regularly for Icarus Acoustic at a variety of music venues in and around Greenwich (including Blackheath Concert Halls) as well as for GFMA festivals and live music events. Originally Jo studied Drama and Music at Kent University, followed by a post grad acting course at Drama Studio, London and Song writing at Goldsmiths. 

Jo has been making theatre for and with young people since the early 90’s. Music has been a strong thread through her theatre career; first as an actor musician and later as a composer of original music and songs for a catalogue of devised youth theatre productions. 

Collaborations include youth theatre projects at Royal National Theatre, Richmond Theatre, Tricycle (Kilburn), Hackney Empire, Palace Theatre (Watford), Roundhouse (Highbury), Union Chapel (Islington), Wolsey (Ipswich), Royal Theatre (Northampton), English Teaching Theatre, Snap People’s Theatre Trust and local to home with Age Exchange (Blackheath) and Lewisham Youth Theatre at Broadway Theatre, Catford. Most recently Jo’s theatre projects have been associated with the V and A museum who commissioned her to write (songs and script) and to direct a Pop Up Theatre work for Families alongside their “Winnie the Pooh: Exploring a Classic’ exhibition, to write songs for an original Pop Up Theatre work alongside their Ocean Liners exhibition and to write songs and perform in Nightingale Games; an original work alongside their Video Games exhibition.

Songs for Theatre

Theatre commission for V&A: Instrumental compositions for 'Nightingale Game'; a Pop Up Theatre Production for Family Learning at V&A (alongside Design/Play/Disrupt Video Games exhibition) February 2019.

Photos © Victoria and Albert Museum, London