Tuesday night I was lucky to see a band that escaped my radar. I went to see The Be Good Tanyas at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis. In the course of 24 hours, I learned the band's name AND found out that at least 6 people I know love them! The friends that I went with have seen them at four Winnepeg Folk Festivals (or so... I think the said 4). The next morning at work I needed to touch base with a teacher right away, and it turned out she was at the show, too! After work, while visiting with my neighbor friend in the alleyway, my friend told me he loved the band too!, and was sad to have missed them (they haven't played in Minneapolis for eight years). I had never heard of them before, but they were a delightful surprise on a school night!
The Be Good Tanyas is a group of very talented folk ladies from Canada. Their voices were sweet and melodic. Their string talent was obvious. The concert was very low key, but at the end of a long day, it was precisely what I had hoped for. The review I heard from my friends, however, is that the concert was a little too low key. In The Be Good Tanya's defense, this was indoor on a cold fall evening, and the Cedar was stacked with chairs and nice Minnesotans. In the concerts they have seen in the past, they had danced themselves tired outdoors in a crowd of sun burned Canadian hippies. With that said, these were the most MILD mannered musicians I have EVER seen perform. So mild, in fact, that if I closed my eyes while they were talking, I would swear I was watching a live taping of the SNL skit The Delicious Dish.
It was a wonderful night. Let's go out and celebrate your new job again some time JA! The only thing that would have made the evening better would have been not leaving early- I was sad to leave early. Perhaps one day soon I won't be leaving good concerts early. One can hope :).
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