SHARON VAN
MEG BAIRD
Friday, September 4, 2009, 7:00 PM
Joe's Pub
Sharon Van Etten / Meg Baird
Tonight's show will feature:
SHARON VAN ETTEN from 7:00 - 7:45 PM
and
MEG BAIRD from 7:50 - 8:35 PM
Meg Baird (The
Baird Sisters, Espers) has been playing music with her sister Laura for
as long as she can remember. The sisters were introduced to a trove of
traditional material via Smithsonian Archives LPs early in life. Their
natural gravitation to folk music must have been strong if they felt
compelled to write to agencies associated with the Federal Government
to unearth old tunes from the vaults. In preparation for Dear
Companion, her first solo outing, Meg chose songs that showed signs of
holding up to repeat listenings. The result a beautiful collection of
melodies, some ancient, some old and some refreshingly new.
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"Sharon Van Etten has a soft, strong soprano that trembles with slight vibrato in the long sustained notes. High, angelic, disembodied, without audible strain or breath, she traces out melodies, yet just when the tone seems too pure, she slips into the smallest earthy slides, the slightest Appalachian catches and yodels, an angel trying out the blues. You could imagine her as one of the 1960s’ long-lost flower children – more grounded than Vashti Bunyan, less overtly jazzy than Linda Perhacs, but in the same family. Still there’s a touch of modernity, of self-direction and self-reliance in her work that places her firmly in the here and now."
-Dusted Magazine
More Info at Joe's Pub Genres- Jazz
- Folk, Singer-Songwriter
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