Photo by Keira Kalleberg

Its hard for me to believe its been almost twelve years since we last saw Kimya Dawson live. Those two shows in 2008 at tiny Southpaw, and then later at a much larger Webster Hall straddled the time period when Kimya’s star rose dramatically due to her exposure in the Academy Award nominated film Juno, which included her performance at the Oscars.

We noted back then that fame hadn’t at all changed the authenticity of this unique performer and that remains correct today. She remains a person whose observational songwriting skills convey an understanding of the variety of emotions of the human condition — humor, love, anger, sadness, and most importantly a sense of community. This concert at Market Hotel covered much of her classic material and consequently many of those emotions.

This set was recorded by house FOH Joe onto a thumb drive through the soundboard’s internal recording device. Except for a low guitar level in the first song, the sound is superb. Enjoy!

Download the Complete Show at Archive.org [HERE].

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Kimya Dawson

2019-09-18

Market Hotel

Brooklyn NY

Digital Soundboard Master Recording

Soundboard [Engineer: Joseph] + 16bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (post-production) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Produced by nyctaper

Setlist:

[Total Time 1:23:48]

01 Tire Swing

02 Solid and Strong

03 [banter – long and slow]

04 Singing Machine

05 It’s Been Raining

06 [banter – Facebook Nazi]

07 Fire

08 [banter – Camp John Waters]

09 I Like Bears

10 Alphabutt

11 You Are My Baby

12 Being Cool

13 Alone And Free

14 Will You Be Me

15 Chemistry

16 [banter – theatre camps]

17 I Like Giants

18 [banter – rowdy rounds]

19 Underground

20 [All Star]

21 [Jarrod Bramson tribute]

22 Average Angel [Solute]

23 [banter – business meeting]

24 Anyone Else But You

25 [thanks]

26 Loose Lips

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