[ATTENDED: September 25, 2021] Kathleen Edwards
I’ve enjoyed Kathleen Edwards’ music for years. Her album Voyageur is just stunning.
But when that album came out back in 2012, I wasn’t really going to many shows. It wasn’t until a few years later that I got the concert bug again and put Kathleen on my “gotta see” list.
But Kathleen had other ideas. After Voyageur, she took a break from music. In 2014, she launched a coffee house in Stittsville, Ottawa called Quitters. And it seemed like she might never play again (even though she said she would). So I left her on my “maybe, someday” list.
Then in 2019, she played the WXPNFest (the same weekend that we were going to the Newport Folk Festival–I was a wee bit surprised she didn’t play Newport too). I kind of assumed that it was a one-off return and that would be that.
But an album soon followed. And then earlier this year it was announced that she was playing The Met Philly. But as an opening act for Jason Isbell, who I did not want to see. [It’s one thing going to a show for the opening act, but it’s another if you don’t actually like the headline]. So, again, I was out of luck.
But then she announced a show in New York City at Le Poisson Rouge. And even though LPR is hugely inconvenient for me and it cost extra in tolls and parking, I’m so glad I went to the LPR show rather than the other two. If for no other reason than the other two shows were all of 9 songs while this one was 16. And the LPR crowd were there to see her! And they sang along, and she was pretty tickled with us all. (more…)
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