Alina Simone + Shannon McArdle
Prices
Tickets: advance $8, day of show $10
Description
Both artists tonight are playing from new albums with unusually deep emotional themes. Alina Simone’s Everyone Is Calling Out to Me, Beware features songs written by the Russian folksinger Yanka Dyagileva, who drowned mysteriously in 1991 at the young age of 24. Whether or not you have any awareness of Dyagileva, the album is moody and moving, with Simone’s memorable vocal presence set in contexts ranging from tragic and spare to almost upbeat. Shannon McArdle was one of the Mendoza Line’s songwriters (the female one, right), and her devastating new solo debut, The Summer of the Whore, chronicles in piercing detail the dissolution of her partnership—in life and music—with that group’s Timothy Bracy.
When
Aug 8 2008 8pm