FolkWorld #48 07/2012
© David Hintz

Ethereal as Ever

Marissa Nadler

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Marissa Nadler @ DC9, Washington DC - Jun 14, 2012.

I first saw her in Rhode Island in 2006 at a Terrastock Festival specializing in heavy psychedelic bands. The festival always has room for good folk artists and Marissa Nadler held her own and was quite memorable that night.

She has steadily developed into a well respected artist over this time and recently released another lovely album. But even that was not new enough as she had two even newer songs to play tonight, one for the first time. Her voice was as ethereal as ever, with just enough grounding to show some foundation for her story telling/character songs.

She switched from 12-string to 6 and apologized for the tuning variations needed later in the set. Haunting wonderful songs, marred only by the loud dance party going on downstairs and the clomping up and down the wood steps to the now three levels of DC9. Acoustic acts have it tough in many of the clubs here in DC.

But the audience was highly focused on this engaging music and the crowd had swelled to over 40 people which is good, but could be better for an artist this talented. Hopefully things will continue to go well for this talented songwriter.

First published @ dcrocklive.blogspot.com.


Photo Credits: (1) Marissa Nadler (unknown).


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