Coming July 22: Jen Kearney
| July 22, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Jen Kearney – A smoke ring from a Cuban cigar wafts through a city kitchen as a soul singer croons on crackly vinyl; freshly diced onions sizzle as they hit the olive oil in Sunday’s morning’s pan. With a pungent mix of soul, Latin, Funk, reggae, and good old rock On’ roll, Jen Kearney and the Lost Onion will take you into the kitchen to find that sweetness in the soul food you crave. Perhaps Kearney owes it all to her Uncle Sal, who taught her to play piano by ear at the ripe old age of four. Coming from a musical family, Jen was immersed from the start. Her attempt however at the classic “lady down the street” piano lessons ended after three weeks of young Jen’s efforts to try to develop the lady’s appreciation for the Fats Domino’s catalog that Jen had learned by ear. Later, even though she still couldn’t read music, Jen was accepted into UMass Lowell’s highly regarded Music Performance program, She considers this experience “divine intervention” in terms of the musical connections she’s made with the incredible people she plays with to this day. After a brief stint in the performance program, Jen decided her roots and musical “street education” were the path for her, rather than continuing with a music degree. After many underground “hootenannies” and open mics, she also taught herself to play guitar, expanding her songwriting to both instruments. Taking the skills learned in college while staying true to her primal instincts, Jen has been honing her own singing, songwriting, and performance style in bands like Cabbage Stew, Kearney Square, and her current Lost Onion configuration. The forthcoming album, The Year of the Ox, set for release this spring, represents a different approach for Kearney. A rarity for so long, it’s an actual concept album, Taking a darker direction lyrically and musically, the concept is loosely based on The Ten Oxherding Pictures of ancient Buddhism. Jen found these after pondering over a zodiac placemat at a Chinese restaurant, and was taken by the simplicity of the herder taming the ox that represents the mind. For more, go to www.myspace.com/jenkearneythelostonion.
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