Shadows and Light

Lynn Miles, unplugged at the most intimate venue in the Annapolis Valley. It just doesn’t get any better than that, unless you are sitting in her kitchen! View the photo gallery here or read more below.

Lynn Miles at the Evergreen Theatre

We have been fans of Lynn Miles since we saw her at Deep Roots Festival a few years ago so when we heard she was coming to the Evergreen Theatre, we were very excited to be able to hear her again and we were not disappointed. You could have heard a pin drop in the audience as she sang some of our old favourites as well as some new (to us) material in her lovely, clear voice including “Over You”, and “Little Bird” a beautiful, strong song with a haunting poignancy. Lynn has a knack of taking an impression of the pain that surrounds us at times and putting poignant lyrics and sweet melodies to soothe this pain as only she can. “A Thousand Lovers” does just this and plays over the Photo gallery of the performance.

A beautiful artist, Lynn stood alone on that stage with her guitar and bared her soul to us in her performance. We are the richer for it. Thank you Lynn. The photo gallery of this performance can be viewed here.

Ellie

If I had to use one word to describe Little Miss (lightning fingers) Higgins’ performance it would be.. fantastic.. sassy.. provocative.. tight.. charismatic.. vibrant! (oops! I guess one word just won’t cut it! ;o)) We see a lot of great musicians over the season at the Evergreen Theatre and I might seem to enthuse too much about them all. If it looks as if excellence is the new ordinary, it’s because each performer that I am so excited about is special in their own field or genre. In the case of Little Miss Higgins, she has the country blues genre all sewn up. A quick link to the photo gallery can be found here, featuring the track “Dirty Ol Tractor Song” from her live CD “Two Nights in March”. For those who want to read on for more about the performance.

Little Miss Higgins at the Evergreen Theatre

Playing their exciting guitar licks and bluesy stompbox beat with partner Foy Taylor Little Miss fairly filled the Evergreen with stories and songs of Prairie town and country life which were refreshing to our thirsty Atlantic Canadian ears. This live wire lady tore into the first set with “Give Your Mama One Smile” and then gave us “In the Middle of Nowhere” and “Velvet Barley Bed” and we were right there watching those Prairie fields with her. Particular favourites of mine of the evening (and her live CD) were “Killer Diller” by Memphis Minnie, “Slug on My Boot”, “Bargain Shop Panties”, “Liar, Liar”. .. truth is they all felt like my favourites when I was listening to them!

Little Miss Higgins

The performance was tight and exciting and we really hope she comes back to the Evergreen again. NEVER pass up the chance to see Little Miss Higgins.

Thanks to both of you for a great Evergreen night. Photo gallery can be viewed here.

Ellie

Coco Love Alcorn has a large fan base in Nova Scotia, Toronto and Vancouver – in short, all across Canada – and anyone who has attended her concerts can quickly understand why. A quick link to the photo gallery of her Evergreen Theatre performance can be found here.

Coco Love Alcorn

Coco’s performance on this tour has plenty of surprises in store (no, I am not going to spoil them all for you!) and one of them is that she has an extended family that is full of musical talent. Her cousin Lindsay is touring with her on backup vocals and at any point on her tour you might find other family members popping up for surprise appearances.

On this tour she is also accompanied by drummer Alejandro Abarca, from Chile, which added another dimension to this unplugged show.

Link to the photo gallery containing the track “Go to Sleep” from her CD ‘Sugar’ here.

For more of Coco including another great track from “Sugar”, check out the HD Youtube show of her Deep Roots 2008 performance here.