While Matthew Good at the Stone was completely sold out, for something completely opposite to that show, Po’ Girl played an excellent a fundraiser for local environmental organization Greensence, Nov. 17 at the Geomatic Attic. That was a complete contrast to Matthew Good.
Allison Russell and Awna Teixeira sang beautiful vocal harmonies and traded lots of different instruments throughout the show. Russell did most of the storytelling though Texiera added her two cents while introducing a couple songs from her upcoming solo CD.
The show was basically very cool songs covering a variety of styles including folk, blues, Creole, jazz and bluegrass and a great sense of humour shared by two very fetching female singers. Allison Russell and Awna Teixeira traded stories and musical instruments as easily as they traded lead vocal duties.
Teixeira started off playing accordion whole Russell played clarinet. Russell talked about recording a new CD with JT Russell, then played “Grey Ghost” from Mountains/Forest.
They took turns singing lead, singing a range of material from Po’ Girl songs, to songs from songs Russell played with JT Nero on his latest CD Mountains/ Forest plus a lot of others.
They laughed as they told the story of a the scariest drive they have ever done — 26 hours from Austin, Texas, to Boulder Colorado, where they hit every type of bad weather they could other than a hurricane or tsunami, then sang a Po’ Girl song they wrote about the experience.
Teixeira told a story about her first time coming to Canada with her first band and being lucky to make it over the border to stay in Cardston.
Russell also introduced a new French-Creole style song after talking about growing up in a variety of foster homes and then meeting her birth father last year in Grenada and bonding with his family through music.
