Dine with us at Curio and receive Expedited Entry into The
Chapel! When you kick off your evening with dinner and drinks at
Curio, we will check your tickets at your table and you will
avoid the line outside. Be sure you tell us you're coming to the
show when you make your reservation and upon arrival to the
restaurant. Reserve HERE. This is a rare, stars must be aligned,
pairing of two revered legends in their own time - Evie
Sands and Bridget St. John. 2 triple-threat
singer-songwriter-instrumentalists sharing 1 stage promises
across-career highlights and delights - meaningful, memorable,
illuminating and sly fun. Although these two cherished icons of
Northern Soul (Evie) and British "Psych Folk" (Bridget) may appear to
be continents and genres apart, their free-spirits feel connected,
with both sirens possessing treasured singular voices within the music
biz cacophony who have managed to persevere, staying true to their
artful paths with a multitude of grace and with both still full-on
creatively - hence the tour's title - "A Woman's Work Is Never Done".
Evie's last full length was proclaimed "a revelation" by esteemed
British mags MOJO and Uncut, her definitive Angel of the Morning
figured significantly in last year's controversial series - "Baby
Reindeer", while Bridget will have a new EP: "Musical Brothers"
interpreting songs of her Les Cousins Soho ('60's London's Greenwich
Village) mates: Nick Drake, John Martyn, Michael Chapman and Kevin
Ayers. Evie's adept band will support. Expect surprises. Evie
Sands is a blue-eyed soul-singer, naturally funky guitarist
(left-handed and upside-down), enchanting performer, sultry
songwriter, intuitive and inventive arranger and producer, a
meticulous professional and musician’s-musician. Her career has
traversed the musical spectrum of Tin Pan Alley, teenage package Pop
tours, national TV exposure, major label hits, cult fandom, Northern
Soul iconology, Indie label #1's and digital DIY with her own
synthesis of sophisticated soul, Americana and pop. Live! she
combines her deep catalog of originals and vintage Evie songs that she
originated - Take Me For A Little While, I Can't Let Go, Angel of the
Morning - with her own classic hits - Anyway That You Want Me, I Love
Making Love To You, You Brought The Woman Out Of Me and digital ones
too, Do It, While I Look At You, If You Give Up seamlessly and
captivatingly... While Evie began her career as a teen ingenue given
Brill Building torch songs to belt, she has evolved into a venerated
songwriter whose songs have been covered by a cross-generational
spectrum of artists from Dusty Springfield, Barbara Streisand, Gladys
Knight, Tom Jones, Cher & Greg Allman to Missy Elliot, Jazmine
Sullivan, Lucinda Williams, Belle and Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub and
Beck. More of what is a fascinating career read can be found at
- eviesands.com Bridget St. John was a leading light of the golden
era of British Folk centered around London's Soho (akin to our
Greenwich Village scene). St John's back pages seems a 'Zelig's dream'
alongside her Les Cousins club colleagues: John Martyn, Nick Drake,
Kevin Ayers, Michael Chapman, Mike Oldfield, Al Stewart, Paul Simon,
Stefan Grossman, Dave Cousins, Ron Geesin and David Bowie. She was,
and remains an intense vocalist, mesmerizing guitarist and gifted
interpreter who writes impressionistic songs of candid reflection
sung in a low-key unapologetic manner. Her distinctive voice delivers
her material with an unintended aura of mystery, ambiguity and
authority that is unique beyond the era she is associated. Deep and
resonant it seems to drown out every other sound around you, as though
she is speaking directly to you. She plays with a calm stillness, with
a kind of composure and gentleness that reminds us how compelling
understatement can be. BSJ is an authentic treasure eternally ripe
for discovery who remains influential, vital and actively
collaborative with on-going torch-bearers Devendra Barnhart, Steve
Gunn, Riley Walker and William Tyler - a testament to the timeless
quality of her material. St John has faithfully tendered her own
characteristic sound that has became part of a canon of music whose
integrity and relevance resounds strikingly today. For a deeper
dive: Bridget St John: The enduring quality of an iconic folk singer
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