Nov 05 2007
Joanna Newsom Live!
Joanna Newsom
Riverbend Centre
Austin, TX
October 27th, 2007
UPDATE! This concert review can also be found at Burnside Writers Collective.
It was as if I had stepped into some strange alternate reality. Or better yet, it was as if I had been granted the opportunity to attend the Scenester Senior Prom. Everywhere I looked, as far as my eyes could see, stood the Hipster Elite draped in their finest garb. A vast majority of males present for the event had bathed and shaved recently, donned sports coats, and even pulled our their best shoes. And thus, because their men were dressed up, the women had the perfect opportunity to adorn themselves in their loveliest dresses, tights, heels, and jewelry. It was a beautiful, if surreal, scene to behold – a crowd of delightfully attired 20-to-30-somethings, filled with an overwhelming sense of heady anticipation at the show that was to commence.
The concertgoers were assembled inside the ornate and lavishly appointed Riverbend Centre, a relatively recently constructed venue in northwest Austin, TX, a space designed to provide the one of the more musically aware cities in the world with a higher echelon locale for shows such as this. The event? The occasion for which all of these folks had gilded themselves in their best apparel? The songstress/harpist Joanna Newsom had arrived in Austin to perform her critically acclaimed album Ys while being accompanied by the Ys Street Band, her touring band, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra. Continue reading “Joanna Newsom Live!”
