Kina Grannis!

Kina Grannis! :D

She looks like a pixie.

The opening act was Patrick James. He was awkward with his "um's" and stumbled through guitar tunings without the learned ease of Kina Grannis. At one point of a song, someone initiated off-rhythm clapping and he stopped, said "If you're gonna clap, at least clap in time." There was a fraction of a moment's stunned silence before good-humoured laughter. He resumed playing, and we resumed clapping but in time this time. He also mentioned having 0.1% of the number of Kina Grannis' subscribers on Youtube. Oh the budding artist's struggle of selling oneself without sounding like it.

Then Kina Grannis. Hannah and I flipped. Her voice was every bit as lovely. She'd explain the story behind certain songs, adding more meaning and substance to them. Like how dead roses bloomed into 'Winter' and the paranoia being murdered during a solo song-writing retreat led to 'Little Worrier'.

Highlights? When the keyboardist played the Super Mario Bros Bowser castle theme song. When the drummer rapped spontaneously. When Kina Grannis sang 'Message From Your Heart' unplugged and got the audience to sing the bumbumbum parts.

Twas absolutely worthwhile.
Me