Transplanted Canadian and current New Mexico based folk/ roots musician Awna Teixeira returned to Lethbridge to play for a chattering audience, Aug. 21.
 She had an enraptured audience sitting in front of the stage as she strummed guitar,   switched to banjo then accordion and back to guitar while effortlessly tapping out a rhythm on a suitcase she was sitting on while playing tambourine with her  feet.

Other audience members chattered amongst themselves at the back of the room, but she ignored them,  as she told stories and switched instruments while chatting engagingly with her fans.

 She played songs from her new CD “Wild One” and plenty more.
She sang with an appealing, wavering voice that enraptured her listeners.

 Her accordion based songs were more exotically  European as she played a song about her grandfather who grew up on a small Greek island called Madalina which was full of sugar cane, grapes, pineapples and populated by Portuguese people before moving to Canada.
 She had a beautifully captivating, girlish voice that drew people in.
 She wound down her first set with the title track from her latest CD “ Wild One.”