Acapela Studio is delighted to welcome highly acclaimed American songwriter Joan As Police Woman as she returns to Europe performing key songs from throughout her career alongside new music from her forthcoming album.
“Joan As Police Woman is one of the 21st century’s best musicians” The Economist
“The coolest woman in pop ”The Times
“a voice so wondrous and moving that makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane” The Guardian
“This is breathtakingly good music” UNCUT
“Full of meditative beauty…ravishing and lovelorn ”MOJO
Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman) was born in Maine USA in July 1970. She was named after Joan of Arc, adopted with her brother at infancy just outside New York City at a time when that city was truly alive with possibilities for those with a creative disposition. As the NYC underground art and music scenes blossomed through Joan’s youth, she fell in love with music very early and began the violin at 8 years old. The young Joan felt music’s power of connection and transcendence, in the same way people do when they speak of God and this has lived in her and the music she makes ever since.
She has collaborated with a large and diverse list of musicians including Tony Allen, Damon Albarn, Lou Reed, Hal Willner, Beck, Afel Bocoum, Meshell Ndegeocello, Toshi Reagon, Sparklehorse, Laurie Anderson, Sufjan Stevens, John Cale, Aldous Harding, Woodkid, Justin Vivian Bond, RZA, Norah Jones, Lau, Doveman, Steven Bernstein, Gorillaz, Iggy Pop, Rufus Wainwright, Anohni, Nathan Larson, David Byrne and Daniel Johnston and participated in three Africa Express tours.
In 2024 Joan released her twelfth studio album, Lemons, Limes, and Orchids which is a crowning showcase of Joan’s voice in all its metamorphic splendour, carried by her piano and strings, complemented by soul superstar Meshell Ndegeocello on bass, Chris Bruce on guitar, Daniel Mintseris on keys, and Parker Kindred and Otto Hauser taking turns on the drums. The record is a nocturne about love and loss — what else is there? — and a reckoning with our collective disorientation, part hymn to holding on and part benediction of letting go.
Book a table for pre-concert dining
Acapela Studio provides pre-concert dining between 6.00pm and 7.30pm from our pizza oven. To view the current menu visit here.
Please purchase your concert tickets first before booking a table. We will not accept any table bookings that do not have a corresponding ticket purchase.
Then return to the event page to book your table, by selecting the date of your event, number of diners and time you require table. The times shown are the only vacancies left. Please complete your email and phone number as this is required to ensure your table is allocated. You will receive confirmation of your booking by email and text.
If on the date you have chosen no tables are available - no times will be shown and the booking system will revert you back to todays date - PLEASE ENSURE YOU BOOK THE CORRECT DATE!
PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE RELIES ON THE INCOME FROM DINING TO ENSURE WE CAN BOOK ALL THE GREAT ACTS PERFORMING.
Income from the provision of pizzas is very important to the venue and if you have booked a table it is a requirement that all people sat at tables order food - a salad alternative is available to pizzas. Please do ensure that all individuals will be ordering on your table - if this is not the case please cancel your table so others who are looking to dine can do so. Our apologies to raise this but recently we have had many tables (some very large) where less than 50% of those sat at tables have ordered food. Financially this is a real problem to the sustainability of the venue.
- All seating at tables must purchase a pizza - so please do not book a table if everyone is not eating.
- Please ensure that you arrive 10 minutes before the time slot allocated to order your pizzas prior to your booking time.
- Tables not seated within 15 minutes of the allocated time may be lost and allocated to other audience members wishing to order pizzas.
- If you wish to book a table for 6 or more please email info@acapela.co.uk
Please note that all of our pizzas are made fresh to order. It may take up to 45 minutes to be served during busy periods.
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO BOOK A TABLE YOU CAN STILL ORDER PIZZAS ON THE NIGHT (USUALLY ON BUSY NIGHTS NO LATER THAN 7.15PM) AND WE WILL SERVE THEM TO YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE SAT IN THE VENUE - IN A PIZZA BOX.