North Valley Productions presents: PO' GIRL

North Valley Productions presents:

PO' GIRL

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Doors Open at 6:30 PM
Show Begins at 7:30 PM

There will be refreshments (beer, soda, & water) available for purchase. No cans or bottles will be permitted from outside sources. There will also be some desserts for purchase as well.

Down-hearted blues from a jazz speakeasy collides with poetic urban grit.....PO' GIRL will delight your senses!

Come out on Thursday September 23rd for a night of spectacular music!

No Depression February 2007 Po' Girl has the same womanly (not girlish, mind you) croon of the 1920s and '30s blues mamas - yet their music isn't of another era. ~ Katy June-Friesen

"...a lovely rustic blend of train-hobo sing-song tunesmithing and trade-off string strumming, pickin' and bowin', with a wee bit of beatboxing thrown in for the fun of it."

- Exclaim!

A sold-out crowd waits in semi-darkness. Outside, a van pulls up and five beautiful rag-tag misfits carrying all manner of instruments saunter through the back door. They head unapologetically, past the frantic promoter, and onto the stage.

Po'Girl starts the show. In typical Po'Girl fashion. On time and at the last minute.

Their strength is in the power of gentle. This is very compelling.

The beauty and mystery of Po Girl's music - a sound that has beguiled fans the world over - springs from the dynamic, improbable, mesmerizing bond shared by its two principle singers and writers - Allison Russell and Awna Teixeira. Hailing from Montreal and Toronto respectively, both women left untenable home situations at fourteen, found music instead of bad ends, and lived to sing the tales. The interplay between these two stunning performers is truly something to behold - and after honing it relentlessly in 13 countries in the last 12 months, the ladies are set to release a true testament to their bond and to their tremendous growth as writers in the last years. Casual Po' Girl fans may not be ready for what they will hear&

After adding the impossibly talented tickler/maker of all stringed things - Benny Sidelinger (Shiftless Rounders, Benny and Eleanor)- to their number last year, Po' Girl will be holed up in Austin, Texas this June making the record that will almost certainly change forever the way the band is perceived. Many of the trappings of the trademark Po' Girl sound are still there - the echoes of speakeasy jazz, the western lament, the accordion-strapped ghosts of European folk --- but it's all delivered with a soulful clarity and depth only hinted at on previous records.

It seems almost silly - and not very interesting - to trot out a long, endlessly hyphenated list of the many influences coursing through Po Girl's music. Suffice to say it's 21st Century roots music, urban roots - never derivative, not faithfully aping a beloved tradition. Teixeira and Russell don't re-hash the old forms, they reshape and reinvigorate them for new ears.

Genuine gypsies, these two wander and play. They move and move and play and sing. It's quite simple. Always restless, more often than not bone-tired, they write their flashes of sadness, their loss, their good love, their faint dreams of home into songs that matter deeply to them. Like any good art, they are little acts of self-rescue. So you should listen. You aren't much different from them, and who couldn't use a little rescuing these days?