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OCTOBER 2022

JONATHA BROOKE
EASTERN BANK JAZZ LOBBY SERIES:
ADAM JANJIGIAN & FRIENDS FRI, OCT 07 8PM
$35
WED, OCT 05 7:30PM
$15 Merging evocative folk, melodic pop and an edgier roots rock
sensibility, singer/songwriter/guitarist Jonatha Brooke began
We are so excited to have Adam Janjigian and his talented releasing music in the early 1990s, first as a member of the duo OCTOBER 2022
bandmates make their debut at the Spire for our October Lobby the Story and more enduringly as a solo artist. After four major
Jazz night! Please join us for this exciting evening of label releases, she started her own independent label, Bad Dog
Records in 1999, and has since released ten more albums -
spontaneous jazz in our intimate lobby jazz setting! including the companion CD to her critically acclaimed, one
woman, Off-Broadway musical, My Mother Has Four Noses.
Born and raised in Boston, pianist Adam Janjigian began studying
music privately at the age of five with additional studies in jazz Jonatha has co-written and/or produced songs with Katy Perry,
starting at ten. He continued private study until graduating in The Courtyard Hounds, and Jessica Simpson. She's also written
2006 from the University of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree for four Disney films, numerous television shows, and she
in music with a jazz emphasis. Adam has performed with the top composed and performed the theme song for Joss Whedon's
names in jazz and his band is a favorite on the Boston jazz scene! Dollhouse.

MARY GAUTHIER WITH SPECIAL
TD BANK LOBBY SERIES: GUEST JAIMEE HARRIS
KEN YATES & STEPHANIE SAT, OCT 08 8PM
LAMBRING $25

THU, OCT 06 7:30PM As she has so eloquently accomplished over the past 25 years,
$20 acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier has used her art once
again to traverse the uncharted waters of the past few years. “I’m
STEPHANIE LAMBRING the kind of songwriter who writes what I see in the world right
Singer-songwriter Stephanie Lambring’s record, now,” she affirms. Thankfully, amid dark storms of pandemic loss,
Autonomy, embraces the heaviness that can she found and followed the beacon of new love: Her gift to us, the
sometimes exist in life, confronting hard truths and powerful Dark Enough to See the Stars, collects ten sparkling
examining difficult topics through a lens of someone jewels of Gauthier songcraft reflecting both love and loss.
working to reconcile their feelings about it all. Her eleventh album, Dark Enough to See the Stars, follows the profound antidote to trauma, Rifles & Rosary
Autonomy‘s “Joy of Jesus” earned the number 28 position on NPR’s 100 Best Songs of 2020, with Ann Powers Beads, her 2018 collaborative work with wounded Iraq war veterans. It garnered a Grammy nomination for
calling Lambring “one of Nashville’s most fearless young singer-songwriters.” Powers also named Autonomy as Best Folk Album, as well as a nomination for Album of the Year by the Americana Music Association. Publication
her Best of October pick on NPR’s All Songs Considered, noting, “What lifts these stories beyond the maudlin is of her first book, the illuminating Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting, in 2021, brought
Lambring’s thoughtfulness and clarity in going past the point of comfort to a place that demands the listener her more praise. Brandi Carlile has said, “Mary’s songwriting speaks to the tender aspects of our humanness. We
not just weep, but confront her own assumptions, the lies she tells herself. Speaking truth should feel need her voice in times like these more than we ever have.” The Associated Press called Gauthier “one of the
uncomfortable, but ultimately freeing. And beautiful. Like this music.” She has also been the face of TIDAL’s best songwriters of her generation.”
Rising Folk playlist. Additionally, Rolling Stone called “Daddy’s Disappointment,” the song that sparked the
writing process for the record, a Song You Need to Know and an “alt-country gem”.
JAIMEE HARRIS
KEN YATES
Born and raised in London, Canada, Ken Yates has gained a reputation as one of his country’s brightest rising On the heels of acclaimed debut Red Rescue, Jaimee Harris doesn’t disappoint with The Congress House
singer-songwriters. The winner of two Canadian Folk Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year and New Artist Sessions, an intimate EP with stripped-down arrangements of selected songs. Recorded at the Congress House
Studio by Mark Hallman (Carole King, Ani DiFranco) and Andre Moran (Sarah Borges, Rickie Lee Jones) and
of the Year, Yates has spent recent years expanding his sound and touring North America and Europe. His new featuring Jane Ellen Bryant and Kris Nelson on backing vocals, Ray Bonneville on harmonica, Brian Patterson on
album Cerulean steps firmly into indie folk and alternative territories, and captures Yates at his most
electric guitar, and Sammy Powell on piano, this is no large, speaker-rattling production. Longtime friends add
vulnerable. The cool-hued record was written as an intimate reckoning as he grieved his dying mother, giving color, but what you’ll hear is Harris and her guitar, delivering performances close to what the songs were when
listeners a vivid window into the rollercoaster of intense thoughts and emotions that accompany such a conceived alone with her guitar. Harris demonstrates that her talent and command of her craft is undeniable,
personal, yet universal experience.
accompanied, or not. Whether there’s a rhythm section thumping behind her, or whether she’s alone with her
Gibson “Gillie” on an empty stage, all eyes and ears are locked on Jaimee Harris.

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