Sing for Sinead: Nothing Compares 2U
Crowdsource Choir at the Royal Room
Friday, August 4
7:30pm | Doors 7pm
$15 advance | $20 Doors | $5 Kids 5-12 | Under 5 Free
Our avenues for coping with grief are scarce
Limited to social media posts
What we truly require
Is coming together
To lament and mourn
To grieve and sing as one
Musicians:
Julia Francis: vocals/guitar https://www.facebook.com/juliafrancis.noshrinkingviolet
Joel DeJong: vocals/piano https://www.facebook.com/joelwilliamdejong
Nozomi: Drums https://www.facebook.com/acidpandadumdumdrum
Evan Flory-Barnes: Bass https://www.facebook.com/evan.florybarnes
“Sinead
She died on the feast day of the lost Irish mother goddess Anu...goddess of the oceans and the howling winds and the windswept earth. Anu who the Catholic Church tried to turn into St. Anne the grandmother...but who could not really be tamed.
So many of us, as young women, who first heard her howls knew she spoke for us, expressed what was in our souls for generations. She was so damn brave. So wild. So utterly untamed.
I listened to her songs over and over again and I howled with her and afterwards I would feel better.
The deaths of people with whom I am not personally intimate does not usually matter to much to me.
But this one feels very painful indeed.
Let her be our wild untamed saint. Let her help us take the tape off our mouths and our hearts. Let us always be too loud, too much, too loving, too fierce, too all of it...in her honor.”
-Perdita Finn
https://www.facebook.com/perdita.finn
Event photo credit: Michael Morrell
https://www.facebook.com/michael.w.morrell