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... by Joanne Corsano ... joanne@picturelake.com

ukulule and recorder
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of the concert

Personnel: Zoë Lewis (vocals, piano, guitar, ukulele, harmonica, percussion, spoons); Roxanne Layton (recorder, spoons, vocals).

Puttin' on the Ritz {Irving Berlin} - Slow Boat to China - Enough {new song} - Box Car - Between Dog and Wolf - Chili - Encyclopedia {new song} - Auntie Gladys - Cup Of Tea - Zoë With a Z - Little Bit of Lovin - Prince of Love - Land Of Lost Things {new song} - These Shoes - Welcome To the Circus - Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue {Lewis/Young/Henderson}

Little Bit Of Lovin'

What a fun show this one was. Zoë sprinkled a few new songs into the set along with the expected chestnuts. The new ones included the serious "Enough," a song about only taking what you need. She references the book Braiding Sweetgrass in her introduction to the song, a book that talks about indigenous wisdom about living with the land. Another new song, more light-hearted, is "The Land of Lost Things," telling about all the stuff people leave behind on the London subway (the tube); besides the usual cell phones and things, there have been wedding dresses, prosthetic legs, a boat, and a pot of cooked frogs!

Zoë played her usual dizzying array of instruments, piano, guitar, ukulele, various percussion (some of which she played by whacking on herself, and even her accompanist Roxanne or even members of the audience), made vocal sounds that if you closed your eyes you would think she was playing a trumpet or a trombone, did her spinning plates trick, coaxed singing along, jumped for joy at the end of songs, and benefitted tremendously from the virtuoso recorder accompaniment by her longtime sidekick Roxanne Layton. And she had fun doing all of that! Maybe there are other musicians that can play what she plays, and other songwriters who can write what she writes, but I don't know of anyone else who enjoys doing it for an audience quite as much as she does.

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