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Zoë Lewis
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Zoë Lewis on vocals, piano, guitar, ukulele, harmonica, percussion, train whistle

Exactly Like You - Blink - Chili - Always a Sixpence - Box Car - When Dog Meets Wolf - Step By Step - Welcome To the Circus - These Shoes - Imagine {John Lennon} ... encore ... Vagabond

Scroll to below videos for a review of the show.

Always a Sixpence

Vagabond

We've been to one show before at the Brewster First Parish Church. A comfortable place to see Zoë perform an afternoon show. Admission was on a sliding scale, as a benefit for Building a Bigger Table, a committee of the church. They describe themselves as a humanitarian community that supports asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants. The slogan on their website reads: when you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a bigger wall. I can sure get behind that idea in this day of not being sure where we're headed in this country.

One thing you can be sure about is that when Zoë sits down at the piano you're headed for an hour of connecting with fine music and some good laughter, too. Zoë has a habit of reading from cue cards that she brings along with inspirational quotes from famous historical characters. I have to start taking notes on what she says. She has a quote from Mark Twain about travel being the enemy of prejudice -- she trots that one out at every show. She herself likes to brag that she's been to 70 countries in her travels! That's mostly in her younger years, I imagine; she's settled down in Provincetown, where's lived now for over 30 years, although after the New Year she's on her way to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where she has an annual residency every winter.

She played some songs from the fantastic new album "Blink," including the title track and "Step by Step." She played the really fun new song that she's been performing recently, "Box Car," in which she accompanies herself on harmonica and percussion that she plays by tapping herself with the instruments, and finishes with a train whistle. She played a number of her live show classics (see set list above), ending with an encore of the uptempo "Vagabond." She played John Lennon's "Imagine" (first time I'd heard her do that) and my eyes were not dry. It was a great show! And the cookies and sweets in the Parish Room after the show were pretty nice, too.

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