JustSayin Summer Concert Series: Laura Barrett

Laura Barrett - Robot Ponies

Not to distract from the highly anticipated Old Time Relijun show coming up next week, but here's another exciting announcement from the JustSayin Summer Concert Series. You've never heard the thumb piano played with such zeal, if you've heard it played at all. Laura Barrett uses her thumbs like palms on congos, agressively plucking the kalimba's tactile percussion into graceful melodies. Pitchfork says she's your "quirky, crafty, half-hip/half-nerdy friend who miraculously managed to escape puberty with her imagination fully intact and who never ceases to charm you with her wiles and whimsy." And that she "stands to do for the indie world's perception of the thumb piano what Joanna Newsom did for the harp". No small task for two thumbs and a dream about My Little Ponies taking over the world in the clean '50s of this new decade.

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JustSayinIsAll.com PRESENTS
Laura Barrett (TORONTO)
quirky, imaginative kalimba
with
The Great White Jenkins (VIRGINIA)
psychedelic, gospel rock


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The Project Lodge
Friday, May 30th [7pm]
$5 (all ages)

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Laura Barrett - Deception Island Optimists Club (mp3)


The Great White Jenkins - Wind (mp3) [live video]