AFTER IT ALL: Cat Power Live @ 5th Ave Theater (City Arts Fest)
November 10, 2010 in Music, Reviews
CITY ARTS FEST (Day 2)
Cat Power
5th Ave. Theater
Seattle, Wa
October 21, 2010
The iconic Chan Marshall (AKA Cat power) set the intimate 5th avenue Theater warmly aglow during the second night of the first ever Heineken City Arts Festival. Accompanying her was a skilled 4-piece backing band, consisting of guitar, bass, Fender Rhodes, and drums. Bathed in blue light, she effortlessly slow danced her way through lovely renditions of songs spanning her entire career. Her voice filled the venue to the rafters and she would occasionally strip a song down to nothing but vocals, backed only by a solitary piano or guitar. There were sparse bluesy jams where Chan played a tinny guitar, repeating simple riffs as the band filled in the colors. There were loosely psychedelic spaces where she didn’t even sing. Everything she presented was taken in and hungrily received by everyone in attendance. Read the rest of this entry →











