Second nights of a two-night run are where the setlist stops being a setlist, and for a performer who mostly does not use one anyway that means the show can go almost anywhere. Alone with a guitar in an open tuning, moving constantly, the Swedish songwriter fills rooms far larger than this one and has been doing it for the better part of twenty years without adding a band to help. The playing is the part people underestimate — fast, intricate, closer to folk-blues technique than to strumming. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall has wood floors and the ceiling height to let a single voice carry. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Thursday. Two-night stands in a room this size turn an audience into something more like a congregation, and by the closing evening the front of the room is all returning faces.
Second nights of a two-night run are where the setlist stops being a setlist, and for a performer who mostly does not use one anyway that means the show can go almost anywhere. Alone with a guitar in an open tuning, moving constantly, the Swedish songwriter fills rooms far larger than this one and has been doing it for the better part of twenty years without adding a band to help. The playing is the part people underestimate — fast, intricate, closer to folk-blues technique than to strumming. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall has wood floors and the ceiling height to let a single voice carry. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Thursday. Two-night stands in a room this size turn an audience into something more like a congregation, and by the closing evening the front of the room is all returning faces.
Second nights of a two-night run are where the setlist stops being a setlist, and for a performer who mostly does not use one anyway that means the show can go almost anywhere. Alone with a guitar in an open tuning, moving constantly, the Swedish songwriter fills rooms far larger than this one and has been doing it for the better part of twenty years without adding a band to help. The playing is the part people underestimate — fast, intricate, closer to folk-blues technique than to strumming. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall has wood floors and the ceiling height to let a single voice carry. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Thursday. Two-night stands in a room this size turn an audience into something more like a congregation, and by the closing evening the front of the room is all returning faces.