On Sunday February 23, Katryna and Nerissa Nields will bring their indie sound to the stage of the Cherry Tree Music Co-op. The show starts at 7:30 in the Parish Hall of St. Mary's Church, 3916 Locust Walk, on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door, and discounts are available for members of the Philadelphia Folksong Society and for students with valid ID.
The Nields define their songs as a marriage of alt country and classic folk rock -- a blending and mixing almost as perfect, and idiosyncratic, as the vocal merging of the two sisters themselves. Their voices combine to create almost a third voice, both comforting and thrilling, made up of all the love and strength and years that exist between them. "The musical equivalent of spun gold." This visit from the ever dynamic sisters is just in time to hear new tunes from their impending new CD, Love and China, due out in March. In these songs, sure to fill the air and your imagination, the sisters get in touch with their Virginia childhood roots and early years filled with Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, and Patsy Cline. But with Nerissa writing the songs, there's an edge of Bob Dylan that makes up its own genre. And with Katryna singing in a kind of childlike wonder radiating through a grown-up soul, this is not your grandparent's country music. The sisters traveled nationally as a 5-piece band when they were younger, releasing six full-length CDs which you've all heard on college, indie, and alternative radio stations. But ever since their debut in a stunning sisters-only close-harmony performance at Lilith Fair, Nerissa and Katryna knew their voices alone would carry them on. They've been singing ever since, with bass backup from Katryna's husband Dave Chalfant. They opened for Cry, Cry, Cry on a tour of Alaska, have played the Newport and Philadelphia Folk Festivals, and generally captivated the world. Now you can hear them and fall in love all over again, in the enveloping closeness that is the Cherry Tree Music Co-op. Advance tickets are available from House of Our Own Books at 3920 Spruce Street; Rustic Music at 333 S. 13th Street; and Madd's Records in Ardmore. Cherry Tree concerts are supported in part by a grant from the Philadelphia Folksong Society and by the 5-County Arts Fund, a program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. For more information, call the Cherry Tree at 215-386-1640 or visit our website at http://www.cherrytree.org Upcoming Concerts: March 3 -- Bob Franke ($10/$13) www.bobfranke.com March 17 -- Janis Ian ($20/$25) www.janisian.com March 24 -- Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer ($12/$15) www.cathymarcy.com April 7 -- Laurie Lewis ($15/$18) www.laurielewis.com ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
