Catherine Joy is rumored to be the lovechild of Tom Waits and Joni Mitchell, carried off by a disoriented albatross shortly after her birth. She spent much of her childhood on an uncharted island with a guitar and piano, where she soon grew tired of the taste of coconuts and learned to lure sea turtles to her with songs of love, loss and ornithology. It was her passion for hunting with predatory birds that gave birth to a lifelong vendetta between her and the fiendish mutant seagulls whose numbers have been on the rise since the industrial revolution. Perpetually hunted by them, she writes songs that lament the life she has left behind, call listeners to action, and serve as a warning of the impending feathered apocalypse.

Armed with a piano, guitar and powerful rhythmic stomp, Catherine’s works range from tearjerking love songs to raucous anthems. Sweet and vulnerable, yet consistently powerful and timeless, she delivers rock, folk and Americana with a distinctly Vaudevillian style. Incorporating highly narrative and poetic song writing influenced by an eclectic cast including Leonard Cohen, The Magnetic Fields and Danny Elfman, Catherine Joy is poised to entertain, entrance and inspire with a unique and compelling blend of song and spectacle. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.