Anywhere Presents: Katy Pinke

Katy Pinke’s songs are self-examinations—cerebral and unsparing, but reaching toward a more promising future. The Manhattan-based singer-songwriter, painter, and theater-maker’s nimble soprano evokes the precision, humor, and melancholy of forbearers like The Roches and Connie Converse. Sentences pour across verses, disrupting the symmetry of the expected verse-chorus song form, recalling her espoused hero Bill Callahan. Pinke released her stripped-down debut self-titled album in the spring of 2024, which PopMatters describes as “warm and engaging…somehow dreamlike but rooted in authentic, basic principles of songwriting and performance.” Her live shows have become storied events in the NYC indie scene, sharing the stage with acts like Laura Veirs, Jolie Holland, TV On the Radio’s Kyp Malone, Indigo Sparke, Delicate Steve, Jesse Harris, Trixie Whitley, and Diane Cluck.