NB-ME!: Show #5 | Lovestorm and (Lily) Pretty Bird (Claire)

On Thursday, November 10, the Charlotte Street Arts Centre will continue setting the stage for all things indie and emerging. The New Brunswick Musicians Emerge (NB-ME!) festival will kick off its fourth performance in the Charlotte Street Arts Centre Auditorium from 8pm-10pm, featuring Love Storm, and (lily) pretty bird (claire).

Lovestorm will be celebrating the release of a new CD! Lovestorm has a growing reputation as an innovative and sultry duo that delivers powerful and inspiring live performances. Their new CD was written and recorded in the sweltering heat of Mexico’s Pacific Coast and imbued with the sounds of surf and birds, ‘Overripe’ drips with sensuality, hope and celebration. Undaunted by the absence of their trademark instruments (the cello and harmonium), Tim Isaac and Nina Khosla fearlessly brought together novel sounds and instruments for the recording. Seedpods, an improvised washtub bass, tin pans and a borrowed viola, as well as ukulele, flute, keyboard and beats all found their way into the mix. What results is a passionate collection of both acoustic and intimate as well as upbeat and life-affirming songs.

Lovely Lily of the Lilac Affair, dances the beat of her own drum perfectly well and is more than happy to do so. Truly, not much is known about the Pretty Bird except that she’s part Pixie, terribly tempestuous and absolutely enchanting in every way possible. It is rumoured that she was studying to be an opera singer, being a dramatic coloratura soprano and having a natural aptitude for music, (capable of playing anything she touched) had quite a promising career set out on the horizon. She did unfortunately, eventually, find the classical music “scene” to be positively dispassionate and stifling; also through some traumatic and robust edification coming into the knowledge that all opera singers are ABSOLUTELY MAD... The Pretty Bird ran away to join the scientific and philosophical circus and has been lamenting and lauding her decisions since in the only media she has control of in her existence, her own songs-- and is living quite happily ever after, so far...

At the close of NB-ME!, a special jury will select the winner of the Picaroons Festival Choice Performer Award and the RBC Emerging Artist Award for further professional development. The NB-ME! festival is open to the public, by a suggested minimum donation of $5. Audience members must be legal drinking age to attend.

Funds raised during NB-ME will support the continuation of the festival as well as CSAC’s 2012 ArtReach programming. To learn more about ArtReach check out this nifty look book: (http://issuu.com/charlottestreetartscentre/docs/arts_within_reach_final)