The Compass Music Center listening room is designed to be a place and destination for artists to be themselves without fear or pressure to fit in.
An extension of the organization’s many camps, workshops, and lessons, the room is a material-free concert space that already hears the sounds of up-and-coming students and internationally recognized songwriters.
To kick off a strong schedule of touring acts for 2023, Compass will host an inspired twin building this weekend. Sunday’s show features songwriters who have not only served as models for students who have pushed the limits of their compass, but have learned to tune into themselves.
Lynn Hanson
The Ottawa-based artist knows how to write and deliver all kinds of folk songs, and is sometimes called the “Queen of Canadian Americana.”
The proof is in the music, and Hanson’s 2022 record, Ice Cream in November, is a minor surprise. These 12 tracks feature reverb-soaked noir guitars (think Amy Mann’s “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky”), wistful pianos, wistful harmonica and rusty strings. , combined with live-in rockers and surprisingly gentle ballads.
Hanson’s innate instrumentation is silky and cool, but her syllables often wind up. The production of “November Ice Cream” uses background vocals that are almost timeless, not only enhancing Hanson’s own singing voice, but reacting to her singing like a cast of her supporting characters. doing.
This is music for traveling through different moods.
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Anya Hinkle
Born in Virginia and based in North Carolina, Hinkle is developing her talents and sharing her wisdom over the length of her 2021 record title, Eden and Her Frontiers. Hinkle has played in her string bands such as Dehlia Low and Tellico, collaborated with Japanese banjo player Akira Satake and others, and launched her music under her own name.
Projects such as “Eden…” suggest all that Hinkle can do. Creating rich, textured frames from wood and string, she centers her lyrical portraits of situations, connections, and often the space between the two. Her voice is immediately resonant and familiar, prompting listeners to move toward the edge of her seat and embrace whatever she has to sing.
Hinkle’s music is a reminder that there is magic in everyday life and satisfying struggle in songs.
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Sunday concerts start at 6pm. Tickets range from $18-$25. For more information, please visit www.compasscolumbia.org.
Aarik Danielsen is Tribune’s Feature and Culture Editor. Contact him at adanielsen@columbiatribune.com or call him at 573-815-1731. Find him on Twitter @aarikdanielsen.