Cheltenham Racecourse

AK Patterson

Big Top, Saturday 2018

AK Patterson

AK Patterson has been dubbed ‘a woman possessed’, disappearing to a place of fierce enchantment when she sings.

At the heart of each performance is her unique vocal style. One that evolved from her upbringing in a jazz-centric household, and influences from Bjork, Jeff Buckley, Ella Fitzgerald and Portuguese Fado musicians. Learning the subtleties and characteristics in each voice has helped her carve her own, which moves easily between sensitive to thrilling attack and moments of melismatic Eastern promise.

AK Patterson’s charged delivery cast against a backdrop of haunting and skilful instrumentation, makes every performance an absorbing experience, sucking you in with melancholic lyrics and then out of the darkness - a burst of savage, unfaltering honesty and release of untamed emotion.

AK Patterson – Shadows
AK Patterson – Shadows