There is a specific kind of artist who understands that the live show is not an appendage to the record. It is the record made physical. Karin Ann is that kind of artist. Her music has always carried the quality of something meant to be heard in a room: intimate, unhurried, and full of energy.. This spring, she is giving audiences the chance to find out what that sounds like in person.

The dates run through March and April. On March 22, she plays a full-band set at Musexpo,  seven songs, seven unique intimate moments. Two days later, an acoustic performance at the same venue, a deliberate contrast that shows her comfort moving between the two modes of her music. On March 25, she takes the stage at Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles for an acoustic radio session, two songs, stripped back, for listeners who know exactly what they are listening for. April brings two nights in Napa Valley with three acoustic songs each. These will definitely have an intimate, beautiful vibe. The run closes on April 22 with a radio appearance in Portland.

The through-line is intentionality. These are not venues selected by a booking agent optimizing for capacity. They are the right rooms for the right moment in a career that has moved slowly and deliberately, without the shortcuts that would have diluted what makes her interesting. Karin Ann grew up in Zilina, Slovakia, and now splits her time between Los Angeles and London. That geography has left its fingerprints all over her music in ways that are easier to feel than to explain. She is not quite American indie, not quite British folk, not entirely European. She exists somewhere in the overlap, and that space has turned out to be commercially and critically real.

"i was never yours," her latest single, is the evidence. Produced by Benjamin Lazar Davis and co-written with Suki Waterhouse, whose platinum-certified "Good Looking" established her as a credible songwriting force, the track has reached #35 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart, making Karin Ann the first Slovakian artist in that chart's history. The sound is currently trending in the top 50 on Instagram globally. The YouTube video has crossed 2.2 million views. It peaked at #23 on the US iTunes chart. Rolling Stone UK named her an artist to watch. She has done all of this independently.

Her debut album, through the telescope, released in 2024, was described by NME as "confident and unflinching." It moved through LGBTQ+ identity, mental health, toxic love, and gender equality with the directness that debut albums rarely achieve. Her music video for "a stranger with my face" and "favourite star," shot as a two-part cinematic series co-starring Ashley Moore and Gus Kenworthy, won Best Music Video at the 2023 Top Shorts Film Festival. She appeared as Maria in The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the internationally acclaimed miniseries.

The spring shows are happening now. The full-band version of this music at a music expo, the stripped acoustic version at Hotel Cafe, the Napa Valley nights: each one is a different angle on the same body of work, from an artist who understands that showing people different sides of your music is how you build a permanent audience rather than a momentary one. 

Don’t miss out on this: Follow on Instagram and stream her music on Spotify. The next show is closer to your home town than you think.

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