Wed, Oct 21
Joy Oladokun
A voice only carries a room if the room agrees to stop talking, which is much rarer than musicians pretend and is entirely out of their control.
This is one of the few current touring songwriters who reliably gets that silence. The songs sit at the intersection of folk, gospel phrasing and plain confession — written by someone who grew up inside a tradition and then had to work out which parts of it were actually theirs, which is a subject most writers handle badly and this one handles with almost no self-pity. Live, the arrangements strip further back than the records, so the room does most of the work.
A Wednesday at the North Park theatre. Doors seven, on stage eight.
October 21, Observatory North Park, 2891 University Ave. Bring whoever you have had the long version of that conversation with. This stage hosts two of these in the same week, which tells you the audience for it here is bigger than the booking suggests.
A voice only carries a room if the room agrees to stop talking, which is much rarer than musicians pretend and is entirely out of their control.
This is one of the few current touring songwriters who reliably gets that silence. The songs sit at the intersection of folk, gospel phrasing and plain confession — written by someone who grew up inside a tradition and then had to work out which parts of it were actually theirs, which is a subject most writers handle badly and this one handles with almost no self-pity. Live, the arrangements strip further back than the records, so the room does most of the work.
A Wednesday at the North Park theatre. Doors seven, on stage eight.
October 21, Observatory North Park, 2891 University Ave. Bring whoever you have had the long version of that conversation with. This stage hosts two of these in the same week, which tells you the audience for it here is bigger than the booking suggests.
This is one of the few current touring songwriters who reliably gets that silence. The songs sit at the intersection of folk, gospel phrasing and plain confession — written by someone who grew up inside a tradition and then had to work out which parts of it were actually theirs, which is a subject most writers handle badly and this one handles with almost no self-pity. Live, the arrangements strip further back than the records, so the room does most of the work.
A Wednesday at the North Park theatre. Doors seven, on stage eight.
October 21, Observatory North Park, 2891 University Ave. Bring whoever you have had the long version of that conversation with. This stage hosts two of these in the same week, which tells you the audience for it here is bigger than the booking suggests.
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A voice only carries a room if the room agrees to stop talking, which is much rarer than musicians pretend and is entirely out of their control.
This is one of the few current touring songwriters who reliably gets that silence. The songs sit at the intersection of folk, gospel phrasing and plain confession — written by someone who grew up inside a tradition and then had to work out which parts of it were actually theirs, which is a subject most writers handle badly and this one handles with almost no self-pity. Live, the arrangements strip further back than the records, so the room does most of the work.
A Wednesday at the North Park theatre. Doors seven, on stage eight.
October 21, Observatory North Park, 2891 University Ave. Bring whoever you have had the long version of that conversation with. This stage hosts two of these in the same week, which tells you the audience for it here is bigger than the booking suggests.
This is one of the few current touring songwriters who reliably gets that silence. The songs sit at the intersection of folk, gospel phrasing and plain confession — written by someone who grew up inside a tradition and then had to work out which parts of it were actually theirs, which is a subject most writers handle badly and this one handles with almost no self-pity. Live, the arrangements strip further back than the records, so the room does most of the work.
A Wednesday at the North Park theatre. Doors seven, on stage eight.
October 21, Observatory North Park, 2891 University Ave. Bring whoever you have had the long version of that conversation with. This stage hosts two of these in the same week, which tells you the audience for it here is bigger than the booking suggests.
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