Concerts

Jessica Lea Mayfield @ Iota

Posted on September 1, 2011

ARLINGTON, VA - August 23rd, 2011: Jessica Lea Mayfield performs at the Iota Cafe in Arlington, VA. She released her sophomore album, Tell Me, earlier this year. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/FTWP)One of the best (and worst) things about shooting for the Washington Post is going to shoot artists that I know nothing about. Sometimes they aren’t my thing and I hate that particular assignment, sometimes the artist is good but the shooting conditions suck, and every once in a while I get blown away by an act I was totally unprepapred to be blown away by. Like Jessica Lea Mayfield at Iota.

ARLINGTON, VA - August 23rd, 2011: Jessica Lea Mayfield performs at the Iota Cafe in Arlington, VA. She released her sophomore album, Tell Me, earlier this year. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/FTWP)

ARLINGTON, VA - August 23rd, 2011: Jessica Lea Mayfield performs at the Iota Cafe in Arlington, VA. She released her sophomore album, Tell Me, earlier this year. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/FTWP)

ARLINGTON, VA - August 23rd, 2011: Jessica Lea Mayfield performs at the Iota Cafe in Arlington, VA. She released her sophomore album, Tell Me, earlier this year. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/FTWP)

I’ll let the Post’s David Malitz describe Mayfield’s somewhat morose, but hauntingly beautiful music in more expressive terms, but let me just say I was pretty blown away by this show. This girl has it. Keep an eye on her, big things await.

ARLINGTON, VA - August 23rd, 2011: Jessica Lea Mayfield performs at the Iota Cafe in Arlington, VA. She released her sophomore album, Tell Me, earlier this year. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/FTWP)

ARLINGTON, VA - August 23rd, 2011: Jessica Lea Mayfield performs at the Iota Cafe in Arlington, VA. She released her sophomore album, Tell Me, earlier this year. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post) (Kyle Gustafson/FTWP)

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Kyle Gustafson is a freelance photographer based in Washington, D.C. His work appears weekly in The Washington Post. Complex Magazine named him one of the 50 Greatest Concert Photographers Right Now.

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