ZOE HESELTON

Zoe Heselton is a British-born poet, songwriter, guitarist, and singer based in Strasbourg. Her music – infused with traditional, folk, blues, and flamenco influences, spoken word poetry, and a wide range of eclectic and experimental inspirations – is both intimate and vibrant. Performed with a sharp yet sensitive electric guitar, it moves between vulnerability and strength, exploring darkness and healing. At times melodic, at times dissonant, her songs are litanies of survival, poems of tenderness and rage.

After ten years of writing, she will release her first studio album, Another Kind of Suicide, in April 2025 on the label Teenage Menopause Records. For this project, she brings together a group she names Sister Outsider, after a poem by Audre Lorde, featuring: Inès Rousset (bass), Merve Salgar (tanbur), Lise Barkas (hurdy-gurdy), Liliane Chansard (vocals), Quentyn Risjeterre (bells), and Harutaka Mochizuki (saxophone).

FORMATIONS:

Solo:
Zoe Heselton : electric guitar, vocals

Duo:
Zoe Heselton : electric guitar, vocals
Inès Rousset : bass, vocals
or
Liliane Chansard : vocals
or
Merve Salgar : tanbur

Sextet:
Zoe Heselton : electric guitar, vocals
Inès Rousset : bass, vocals
Merve Salgar : tanbur
Liliane Chansard : vocals
Lise Barkas : hurdy-gurdy
Quentyn Risjeterre : bell