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Alela Diane
Also Playing: The Maykit
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Megan Holmes
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Fri Nov 20
9 pm,
Alela Diane and The Maykit at Hi-DiveNorthern California singer-songwriter Alela Diane played her first show opening for friend Joanna Newsom, and 2006’s The Pirate’s Gospel should have borne a sticker saying, “Recommended if you like Joanna Newsom and Jolie Holland.” While that record found Diane building subdued, reflective songs around her voice, guitar-picking, and little else, her Rough Trade debut, To Be Still, brings in pedal steel, cello, and violin for an expanded sonic palette that nevertheless manages to sound arrestingly stark.Hi-Dive 7 S Broadway, Denver/Boulder, CO
Northern California singer-songwriter Alela Diane played her first show opening for friend Joanna Newsom, and 2006’s The Pirate’s Gospel should have borne a sticker saying, “Recommended if you like Joanna Newsom and Jolie Holland.” While that record found Diane building subdued, reflective songs around her voice, guitar-picking, and little else, her Rough Trade debut, To Be Still, brings in pedal steel, cello, and violin for an expanded sonic palette that nevertheless manages to sound arrestingly stark.
Updated 11/16/2009
