September 11, 2014
A new year on the Hill means a new set of exciting acoustic coffeehouses presented by CAB. Last Thursday, Sept. 4, recording artists Marc Scibilia and Alice Limoges performed in the Filius Events Barn. Limoges, a singer-songwriter from Maine, is a peppy, young artist who began the night singing “I’m So Good At Hello.” This proved a true statement, as her amazing talent immediately enraptured the audience. Accompanied by Limoges’ guitar, a violinist and a keyboardist, this first song started off slowly, then picked up with high-energy guitar playing and strong vocals. The emotional aspects of her songs and her ability to belt out lyrics resembled a folksier version of Adele.
Limonges’ singing style has the ability to transform over the course of a single song; their slow beginnings contrast drastically with their high-tempo endings. Emanating passion, her music seems to take the audience on a roller coaster of feeling. Plucking her guitar, she manipulated the audience’s emotions with her skillful expression. One of her most memorable songs, “The Lucky One,” is about a girl from her past. Using the beauty of the violin, she took the audience on a waltz around the barn. Limoges will release her new album As Close As You Can Be Without Touching later this year, which she advertised throughout the performance of the album’s title song.
Following Limoges’ powerful performance, Scibilia kicked off his set list with his newest song, “Finally.” The song was low-key, with just the accompaniment of his electric guitar. The song was lyrically beautiful and exciting, which make me fall in love with Scibilia as he strummed his guitar. At the end of the song, two men—Eric Montgomery and Scibilia’s brother, Matthew—ran onto the stage and gracefully started rocking out to a song about “those damn voices in [their] heads.”
Throughout his performance, Scibilia shared some songs from his newest EP, The Shape I’m In. The full album will be coming out early next year. As the third song began to pick up, a group of girls got up to dance in front of the stage. After a few verses, I got up and joined them, too.
The peak of the performance was when Scibilia played his 2012 No.1 iTunes singer-songwriter single “How Bad We Need Each Other.” Scibilia shared the chorus with the audience and invited us to clap and sing along. The reaction was phenomenal. Filled with many people dancing and almost everyone singing, the Barn has likely never hosted an acoustic coffeehouse with so much energy.
Beginning with the amazing talent of Alice Limoges and Marc Scibilia, Hamilton College can sure anticipate a great year of CAB acoustic coffeehouse performances.
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