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December 8, 2009 | Cross-Pollination CCLXVII:  Shira Goldberg, Bill Bartholomew

[All images copyright 2009 Rachel Oakes]

This week, our photographer Rachel Oakes went to Cross-Pollination, a long-running concert series at Pianos which pairs two artists together to each play a set of their own material followed by a set together. Check it out.

Bill Bartholomew and Shira Goldberg

More on Shira Goldberg & Bill Bartholomew @ Pianos | 12.8.09

RESONANCE PREVIEW
Wednesday, January 14
MATCHLESS | 557 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn
7:00p
FREE!

Resonance has just about unpacked all its boxes and found the perfect feng shui for its new home at Matchless. Having been in the business for over six years, it’s no surprise that this showcase is expected to receive weekly visitors of the highest songwriting and performing caliber. This Wednesday, Bill Bartholomew, Newspaper Joe, Elias Orling and Lara Ewen will come knocking and continue to warm the space with their melodic and lyrical gifts.

If you followed 2008’s Williamsburg Live Songwriter Competition, you probably remember the song “Sea of Indians,” which granted one songster passage to the Semi-Finals. But considering that songs are not in the habit of writing or performing themselves, we know that the responsible party isn’t so much “Sea of Indians” itself as its author, Elias Orling (pictured).

At the WLSC2008, Elias performed with an oversized ukulele (a “buke” perhaps?), but not in the style most frequently associated with the instrument. Minimally plucked/strummed, the uke was a simple background for Elias’s unadorned, provocative voice to sing a repeating melody over lyrics seemingly searching for a better understanding of his past, including memorable lines such as, “Who were my great grandparents? / Did they walk a thousand miles?”

Those who wished to see Elias move on to the Finals so they could hear his second song are in luck, as he will return tomorrow (Wednesday, January 14) to the very same room in which he performed “Sea of Indians” at the WLSC2008, and won many new fans in the process.

RESONANCE PREVIEW
Wednesday, January 14
MATCHLESS | 557 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn
7:00p
FREE!

Resonance has just about unpacked all its boxes and found the perfect feng shui for its new home at Matchless. Having been in the business for over six years, it’s no surprise that this showcase is expected to receive weekly visitors of the highest songwriting and performing caliber. This Wednesday, Bill Bartholomew, Newspaper Joe, Elias Orling and Lara Ewen will come knocking and continue to warm the space with their melodic and lyrical gifts.

If you followed 2008’s Williamsburg Live Songwriter Competition, you probably remember the song “Sea of Indians,” which granted one songster passage to the Semi-Finals. But considering that songs are not in the habit of writing or performing themselves, we know that the responsible party isn’t so much “Sea of Indians” itself as its author, Elias Orling (pictured).

At the WLSC2008, Elias performed with an oversized ukulele (a “buke” perhaps?), but not in the style most frequently associated with the instrument. Minimally plucked/strummed, the uke was a simple background for Elias’s unadorned, provocative voice to sing a repeating melody over lyrics seemingly searching for a better understanding of his past, including memorable lines such as, “Who were my great grandparents? / Did they walk a thousand miles?”

Those who wished to see Elias move on to the Finals so they could hear his second song are in luck, as he will return tomorrow (Wednesday, January 14) to the very same room in which he performed “Sea of Indians” at the WLSC2008, and won many new fans in the process.