Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joan Wasser, who records and tours under the Joan As Police Woman moniker, has lined up an 11-city North American tour in September following a month’s worth of festivals in Europe. She is touring behind her second studio album, “To Survive,” released last month and the follow up to 2006’s “Real Life.”
Returning from Europe on August 30, Wasser leaps into her U.S. tour on September 5 in Philadelphia at Tin Angel, playing the final date on September 25 at New York’s Bowery Ballroom.
Wasser then mounts an Australian tour from October 5-11.
In describing her music, Wasser says on her website: “I’ve called it Punk Rock R&B but American Soul Music is better, I feel like my music is the melding of the two styles I love most: Soul, that whole encompassing Al Green, Nina Simone and Isaac Hayes; and then all the stuff that came from Punk like The Smiths, The Grifters and Siouxsie Sioux…”
Before going solo, Wasser had band stints with The Damnbuilders, Black Beetle and Those Bastard Souls as well as Rufus Wainwright’s touring band.
Joan As Police Woman tour dates:
(Dates subject to change)
| August 31 | Bologna, ITA | St Steven Square |
| August 2 | Kacov, CR | Sazava Fest |
| August 3 | Wien, GER | WUK |
| August 5 | Codroipo, ITA | Villa Manin |
| August 8 | Haldern, GER | Pop Festival |
| August 9 | Goteborg, SWE | Way Out Festival |
| August 10 | Leicester, UK | Summer Sundae |
| August 13 | Utrecht, HOL | De Helling 7 |
| August 14 | Hasselt, BEL | Pukkelpop |
| August 29 | Stradbally, IRE | Electric Picnic Festival |
| August 30 | Argyll, SCO | Connect Festival |
| September 5 | Philadelphia, PA | Tin Angel |
| September 6 | Annapolis, MD | Ram’s Head Tavern |
| September 7 | Arlington, VA | IOTA Club & Cafe |
| September 12 | Chicago, IL | Schubas Tavern |
| September 13 | Minneapolis, MN | Cedar Cultural Center |
| September 17 | San Francisco, CA | Cafe Du Nord |
| September 19 | Portland, OR | Doug Fir Lounge |
| September 20 | Seattle, WA | Triple Door |
| September 23 | Northampton, MA | Iron Horse Music Hall |
| September 24 | Cambridge, MA | Middle East Upstairs |
| September 25 | New York, NY | Bowery Ballroom |
| October 5 | Sydney, AUS | The Great Escape Festival |
| October 7 | Sydney, AUS | The Factory Theatre |
| October 9 | Adelaide, AUS | Jive |
| October 10 | Melbourne, AUS | East Brunswick Club |
| October 11 | Brisbane, AUS | Globe Theatre |