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Po Girl’s Awna Teixeira showed she can play pretty much any instrument. Photo By Richard Amery

Po’ Girl kicked off November with an a superb, sold out show at the Geomatic Attic, Nov. 1.
 I was blown away by the musicianship, not to mention the multi-instrumental virtuosity  of the band’s  four members, Allison Russell, Awna Teixeira, Benny  Sidelinger and drummer JJ Jones who played everything but the kitchen sink. The band incorporated clarinet,  glockenspiel,  banjo, guitar, bass, gut bucket bass, dobro, keyboard and guitar into a cross-cultural melting pot of music. They shared some entertaining stories, jokes and tall tales which took a receptive audience everywhere from the depths of  the Appalachian Mountains  to sidewalk cafes in Paris, France, to  the middle of Saskatchewan, to down south in Austin to a chilly Chicago winter. They had some pretty vocal harmonies and pretty much switched instruments  every song. They played a variety of material from their CD “Deer in the Headlights, their new live CD as well as tested out quite a bit of excellent new material on the audience who were hanging on every note.

— By Richard Amery, L.A.Beat editor

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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 03 November 2009 14:48 )