22 September, 2010
Live Music
As part of my acclimation to Boston / Cambridge, I've been seeing a lot of live music that's been coming through. It helps me put down roots. That way I can say things like "when I lived in Boston, I saw [blah blah] at the [blah blah] club in Boston, and it blew my [blah blah] mind."
My cousin Jonah and I saw Basia Bulat at TT the Bear's Place. If you haven't heard her music, it's beautiful and you should go listen to it now. There happened to be an 18+ techno-rave-dance-off (or whatever the kids are calling it these days, meh) in the floor below the venue. The whole band did a pretty darn good job alternating between playing with, over, or ignoring the thumping bass seeping through the floor. Props for persistence.
Basia played one encore song, a spritual called "Soon one Mornin'". Apparently, she used to sing it the beginning for all her sets, but it worked quite well as a send-off. Left me soothed and uplifted. Can't find a video of any higher quality, so here you go:
