Zoë Lewis Duo ~ 2024 August 3 ~ Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
Personnel: Zoë Lewis (vocals, piano, guitar, ukulele, harmonica, percussion, train whistle); Roxanne Layton (recorder, rain stick, vocals).
Set List
Someone Exactly Like You - Blink - Always a Sixpence - Never Too Old To Be Young - Nice Cup Of Tea - Somewhere Else - Railroad Track - Chili - Prince Of Love - Veronica Without - Welcome To the Circus ... intermission ... Step By Step - When The Rain Comes - Aphrodite Hotel - Souvenirs - These Shoes - Breakfast Blues - Always Have the Moon
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Down by the Railroad Tracks
Veronica Without
When The Rain Comes
Review
The Bank Vault venue is an intimate, if somewhat echoey, place for Zoë to play a gig, accompanied by Roxanne. A bit of a drive for her from Provincetown, it is also closer for us Upper Cape Codders. Zoë played a generous selection from her splendid new album, Blink. These included the title track, which joyfully wraps up in four minutes how Zoë and her Provincetown musical community made the best of the horrors of the pandemic. In a time of destruction, let's create. Zoë often tells personal stories in her music, but has a way of opening doors to make them universally appealing; "Veronica Without" and "Souvenirs" are new songs that illustrate this point. Another new song that is bursting with optimism (as so many of her songs are) is "Step By Step."
Zoë isn't just any folksinger with a guitar. She definitely has a strong dollop of vaudeville in her. Check out that song with the spinning plates -- to which she has also added juggling! -- "Welcome To the Circus." And she whacks her own body with a jangle stick (help me, somebody, what do you call that?) to make bell ringing sounds on the song I am calling "Railroad Track." And well, the real top, the tower of pisa, is that song from the new album, "When The Rain Comes," where Roxanne plays the genuine rain stick, imported from the Amazon. And then they let loose and get real close to the rocky edge of things with "Prince of Love" and "These Shoes."
It was, as is always the case with a Zoë Lewis concert, an uplifting and genuinely fun evening of music. When seeing Zoë it is impossible to leave without a smile on your face.
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