Joe Holt

New York City, United States
Active since 2017
Joe Holt
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Joe Holt’s Story

Joe Holt is a folk singer/songwriter who graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2015. 
 Joe has released two EPs and three full length albums. He has toured around America four times, playing venues like Club Passim (Boston), the Hard Rock Cafe (Boston), Rockwood Music Hall (NYC), The Bitter End (NYC), the Bluebird Cafe (Nashville), the Whisky A Go Go (Los Angeles), and has received spins on major radio stations internationally, including at WFUV in New York and WXPN in Philadelphia. The song As Bad as It Seems from Joe's EP Something Louder - EP was featured on NPR's All Songs Considered blog in March 2018. The following full length album A Bigger Fire came out in June 2019, with an accompanying national tour alongside Austin Blair Campbell . Joe's second EP "It’s What We Give" was released on June 5th, 2020, and its first single, People in New York, was featured with an accompanying live video on NPR. 


Joe's most recent album is Tired of Trying, released on May 27, 2022, and it is his most intimate, delicately crafted project yet, heralded as "stirring, eloquent songwriting" by Obscure Sound. Indie Minded praised Joe as “a gifted young talent who is sure to leave his mark on the folk music scene.” Ear To The Ground called him "the real deal in folk songwriting." Other credits include opening for Steve Forbert and Parker Millsap, scoring the short film The Race, and releasing music as Black Alder. 
 Joe lives in New York City.

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Joe Holt’s Story

Joe Holt is a folk singer/songwriter who graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2015. 
 Joe has released two EPs and three full length albums. He has toured around America four times, playing venues like Club Passim (Boston), the Hard Rock Cafe (Boston), Rockwood Music Hall (NYC), The Bitter End (NYC), the Bluebird Cafe (Nashville), the Whisky A Go Go (Los Angeles), and has received spins on major radio stations internationally, including at WFUV in New York and WXPN in Philadelphia. The song As Bad as It Seems from Joe's EP Something Louder - EP was featured on NPR's All Songs Considered blog in March 2018. The following full length album A Bigger Fire came out in June 2019, with an accompanying national tour alongside Austin Blair Campbell . Joe's second EP "It’s What We Give" was released on June 5th, 2020, and its first single, People in New York, was featured with an accompanying live video on NPR. 


Joe's most recent album is Tired of Trying, released on May 27, 2022, and it is his most intimate, delicately crafted project yet, heralded as "stirring, eloquent songwriting" by Obscure Sound. Indie Minded praised Joe as “a gifted young talent who is sure to leave his mark on the folk music scene.” Ear To The Ground called him "the real deal in folk songwriting." Other credits include opening for Steve Forbert and Parker Millsap, scoring the short film The Race, and releasing music as Black Alder. 
 Joe lives in New York City.

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