She appeared onstage a modest, amiable figure, rocking a t-shirt, long skirt and wild, afro-esque hair. The auditorium, teeming with fans and friends, seemed to buzz with excitement as she lifted her acoustic guitar and began to play: "Silver pink ponies flying over me--you may feel strange, well, you are an angel."
Check out photos from the show here.
Indie-folk singer Kimya Dawson brought silly, yet strangely profound, musical fun to the Buskirk-Chumley theater on Sunday, Nov. 23--giving folk fans something to be thankful for, just in time for Thanksgiving.
Songs from "Alphabutt," Dawson's latest release and first children's album, had me in stitches, and the crowd roaring with laughter (one particularly enthusiastic fan yelled, "Play 'Pee Pee in the Potty!'"--to which the singer readily obliged).
Apart from simple urination instructions, Dawson unleashed a plethora of emotionally charged, "I'm-here-for-you" pieces. Twisting sad profundities with childish rhymes proved to be a signature Kimya move. I laughed and cried interchangeably through nearly two hours of her acoustically translated tales: love, loss, hope, hopelessness, childhood and having children--with a dash of general debauchery for good measure.
"Loose Lips," a hit from the Juno soundtrack, became a collective ballad as audience members sang along: "so if you wanna burn yourself, remember that I love you. And if you wanna cut yourself, remember that I love you."
Onstage, the singer giggled and urged more voices to join in. "Call me up before your dead. We can make some plans instead."
