Cindy Doire made her auspicious Lethbridge debut for all of 10 people at the Slice, April 10.
She and dobro player Rob Fenton did a great job, especially Fenton who impressed an attentive audience with some sweet slide playing as well as adding vocal harmonies.
Doire has an immediately appealing jazzy/folk voice with some addictive pop elements as well as a subtle sense of humour which she showed on stage in spades.
With her sexy, raspy voice somewhere between Feist and Twilight Hotel, she made a variety of pretty dark themed ‘muder ballads’ sound pretty darn sexy in her sultry whisper.
Her first set included a variety of songs, a couple from her new CD— her first English speaking CD ‘Sticks and Mud” as well as a “butchered Brock Zeman song that he hasn’t even recorded yet.”
A couple of my favourites “Don’t Let The Bastards Being You Down,” and “the Road is a Temptress” were in the first set as well as a couple very good new ones she hasn’t recorded yet.
I’m glad I stuck around for the second set, which included some of her French songs she is best known for as wellas a couple of my favourites from the new CD “Too Long In Coming.”
Overall it was a solid, laid back set with some excellent dobro and vocal melodies.
