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Oh Land Lead Singer Nana dazzled the audience.
Oh Land Lead Singer Nana dazzled the audience.

Oh Land and Lady Lamb shone at Barn

By Liz Lvov ’17

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Lady Lamb was the opening singer of a highly anticipated FebFest Coffeehouse event that had a line stretching almost to the diner at the entrance, and from the moment she started singing she had the crowd enamored and infatuated.

She started singing with all of the lights out, the audience sitting in darkness with only the diner’s distorted neon glow seeping through the windows, and the fairy-lights twinkling on the stairs’ banister like a Pinterest wedding. Her voice rose up to the circular ceiling, sweet and husky and surprisingly strong. Her guitar was slung over her shoulder; everyone sat very still, enchanted by a song about love and beaches and clementines. When she finished her first song, the stage lights came on in a warm pink glow and the audience clapped enthusiastically, and she smiled gracefully and held her guitar in position.

Lady Lamb played song after song for us and it felt like a series of ballads or lullabies. Her music had a curiously rhythmic quality to it; even though her songs are slow and her guitar the only accompaniment, people in the audience couldn’t help but tap their feet along to a barely audible and partially imaginary beat.

After her set, she stood in the back of the room with her hot girlfriend, arm slung around her waist as the two of them swayed to the music.

Oh Land, the main act, filled up the stage with its four members and high energy. They came all the way from Denmark, and have a few popular songs featured in TV shows and ads and highly viewed videos on Youtube. The lead singer, Nana, had pink hair and immediately set up an easy rapport with the audience, joking and moving from singing into the mic at the front of the stage to playing the piano and back again.

In the pink glow of the lights, their set had a particular magical quality that transported the audience into a delightful reverie. Nana would sing and bounce around, occasionally performing tiny choreographed dances while her bandmates looked on fondly.

Because of the international travel, the instruments were minimal; even the drum set looked like half a drum set. However, the quality of music was not at all reduced and the richness of sound filled the Barn, the energetic lead singer clearly giving her all to the performance.

The lovely ambience of the Barn, paired with the astounding musical talent of both acts, made this particular acoustic coffeehouse a particularly delightful and successful event.

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