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Alela Diane
Also Playing: Marissa Nadler and Lucy Michelle
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Megan Holmes
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Wed Nov 18
8 pm,
Alela Diane, Marissa Nadler, and Lucy Michelle at 7th Street Entry
Northern California-raised, Portland-based 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. She followed that up in October with Alela And Alina, a duet EP with fellow NoCal folkie Alina Hardin that adds some delightfully mournful harmonies to the mix.
7th Street Entry 701 1st Ave. N., Twin Cities, MN
Northern California-raised, Portland-based 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. She followed that up in October with Alela And Alina, a duet EP with fellow NoCal folkie Alina Hardin that adds some delightfully mournful harmonies to the mix.
Updated 11/17/2009
