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... by Joanne Corsano ... joanne@picturelake.com

Zoë Lewis
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of the concert

Zoë Lewis on vocals, piano, guitar, ukulele, harmonica, spoons, percussion, train whistle, spinning plates

I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby) - Chili - 78 - Enough {new song} - Box Car - Never Too Old To Be Young - Breakfast Blues - Little Bit of Loving - Veronica Without - These Shoes - Welcome To the Circus

Scroll to below videos for a review of the show.

78

Afternoon shows in churches are a mighty fine way to see the fabulous Zoë Lewis. One hour is just barely long enough to give a taste of the marvelous variety her music has in store. A cover of an old song, with its instant singalong, started the show. The video I took ("78") is her homage to the Spotify of your great-grandma's generation. The originals included two that had Zoë joyfully using herself as a percussion instrument -- "Little Bit of Loving" with the spoons, and "Box Car" with a variety of things making tapping sounds. Then there were the wistful revelations of "Veronica Without" of the days when life in Provincetown was perhaps not as open as it is today; the marvelous south-of-the-border singing of "Chili"; the laugh-out-loud punning of "Breakfast Blues"; the why-won't-these-plates-obey-me of "Circus"; and to top it off, a lovely, contemplative new song, relevant to a nation where some have great wealth and some have no wealth at all, "Enough." The list that appears above of the instruments that she plays during the concert really isn't complete, because she can hum in a way that sounds exactly like a trumpet or a trombone. Listen to the video of "78" and you will see what I mean!

This was the second year in a row that Zoë Lewis played a Christmas season show at the First Parish Brewster Church as a benefit for Building a Bigger Table, a humanitarian community that supports asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants. The slogan on their website reads: when you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a bigger wall. The good guys, in other words. Admission was by donation to this good cause, and my sense of it was that audience members were digging deep. After the show there were very nice baked goods for munching in the room next door.

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