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The Barr Brothers with Jocie Adams

Presented by World Cafe Live at World Cafe Live - Philadelphia

December 9, 2011

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Brothers Andrew and Brad Barr had spent most of the 90s criss-crossing North America, playing music with their spirited, improv-based rock trio, The Slip. In the spring of 2004, the band was playing a small club in Montreal, QC when a fire broke out in the venue. They grabbed a few guitars/drums and rushed out onto the rainy street with the rest of the concert goers. As the club's mezzanine was swallowed by flames, Andrew offered his coat to one of the waitresses from the bar. One year later, Brad and Andrew Barr were living in Montreal. That waitress is now one of their managers.

Jocie Adams, the wildly gifted multi-instrumentalist and folk mistress will open the show. Accompanied by her lush band, she proffers her songs, from plaintive to elated, as whimsical glimpses of people and places both lost and found. The singing is strange and beautiful. The trumpeting tickles your ears. The bass holds you in its arms. The harmonies surround you like siren voices bouncing off the ocean. The band members are ever in-tune with each other, and they bring you in with them.