Patricia Barber October 8, 2006

Date: Sunday, 10/8
Show: 7:30 pm
Doors: 6:30 pm
Door: $30.00
In Adv: $25.00
Ages: All

With voice, words, and piano, Patricia Barber delivers intelligence and insouciance. She is a singular jazz singer and pianist, but for the last few years it is her songwriting that has been attracting big attention. In concert, she confides by whispering a song of sweet nothings into the listener’s ear, then surprises with a rockedged and trashy song about a one-night stand. She comes across more street-smart than book-smart.

And now Barber’s gone academic, though the result is perhaps the most accessible music of her career. Over the past two years, Barber has been busy recording an eleven-song cycle. She titled it Mythologies and based it on The Metamorphoses of Ovid – the centuries-old classic of Western literature, filled with gods,mortals and apparently, humor.

"Cross Diana Krall with Susan Sontag, and you get Patricia Barber, whose throaty, come-hither vocals and coolly incisive piano are displayed to devastating effect."
--Time Magazine

"The Coolest singer/songwriter around."
--Los Angeles Times

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