Julia Holter

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Real Live Certified

Critic Consensus

Julia Holter is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 106 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Julia Holter is rated as an excellent live performer, with memorable shows that are worth seeing. Julia Holter concert reviews describe live shows and performances as avant-garde, extraordinary, surreal, dramatic, stirring, intense, and dreamy.

ON TOUR

Theatro Circo, Braga, Portugal (November 15); Shoko, Madrid, Spain (November 20); La [2] de Apolo, Barcelona, Spain (November 21); La Rambleta, Valencia, Spain (November 22); Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen, Denmark (November 24); John dee, Oslo, Norway (November 26); Centre Culturel Opderschmelz, 1a Rue de Centenaire, Dudelange, Luxembourg (November 29); La Maroquinerie, Paris, France (December 1); Het Zonnehuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands (December 2); Handelsbeurs, Gent, Belgium (December 3); Trinity Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom (December 5); Islington Assembly Hall, London, United Kingdom (December 6); Band on the Wall, Manchester, United Kingdom (December 7); Saint Luke's & The Winged Ox, Glasgow, United Kingdom (December 9); Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland (December 10)

FESTIVALS IN 2024

Big Ears 2025

March 27 - 30, 2025

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Latest Release

Something in the Room She Moves (22 March 2024)

Artist Info

Genre

experimental

Origin

Los Angeles, United States (12/18/1984)

Bio

Julia Shammas Holter (born December 18, 1984) is an American experimental artist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. A CalArts graduate, she released her first studio album, Tragedy, in 2011.

Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Exclaim (Canada)

May 14, 2024

Julia Holter Took Her Music to New Heights in Toronto at Great Hall, May 13

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The Arts Desk (UK)

April 10, 2024

The meticulous US composer balances meeting expectations and pushing forward

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The Guardian (UK)

November 24, 2022

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The mercurial composer’s brilliant score perfectly captures the raging agony and beatific ecstasy of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s silent movie masterpiece

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Spectrum Culture (USA)

July 28, 2019

Aviary is one of the few chamber pop albums that challenges metal records for sheer volume, and the band recreated that elated wall live.

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Brighton Source (UK)

June 5, 2019

The first time we saw bewildering Milwaukee songwriter Julia Holter was at the Komedia some six years ago, not long after she’d signed to Domino Records for her third album proper ‘Loud City Song’.

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