Born and raised in Kentucky and living in Brooklyn, singer/songwriter Matt Bauer will be performing in LA tonight Friday, June 24th at a special house concert.
How cool is that? It’s so rare in LA to be able to go to a house concert open to the public. It will be a special, intimate music community experience that will be about both the people and the music.
This sentiment is also found within Bauer’s song “When I Was A Mockingbird,” a compassionate and almost symphonic look into all the varioius forms of life in the wilderness of his hometown in Kentucky. Banjos, bells, violins, cellos, and violas all wrap around Bauer’s compassionate and inquisitive musing of all the different perspectives – and all the different worlds – that lie within ours. The song is a bird’s eye view of the world, where each verse is dedicated to zooming in and focusing on the life and perspective of another. The song makes me realize the blessing of words – our human ability to speak, communicate to one enough, and understand the world around us.
Bauer says of his song: “I think of it almost visually, like a panning shot that’s capturing all these moments around one of the places I grew up outside Lexington, KY. I’m imagining what it would be like to be the horse I had growing up, the flies drinking off her eyes, the starlings following each other around in the sky, the the ants looking for mites on a heron… it ends in a dry lake bed that’s behind my parent’s place. There’s a lot of limestone in central Kentcuky, and because of that a lot of caves; so there’s a little sunken forest where there used to be a lake, but all the water escaped down into some underground caves a long time ago.”
TVD is giving away a vinyl copy of Bauer’s album The Jessamine County Book of the Living. For a chance to win, simply leave us a comment telling us what animal you would like to be, if you couldn’t be human of course.
The winner will be chosen next Friday (7/1) and must have a mailing address in the continental US or Canada.
Here are the details on tonight’s show:
Friday, June 24th | House Concert feat Matt Bauer and Dana Falconberry | 209 S. Garey Street | Music starts at 9pm
Here is Bauer’s music video for Mockingbird:
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