{"id":1909,"date":"2009-09-21T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T15:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2009-09-21T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T15:51:33","slug":"red-molly-and-the-nields-at-joes-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/red-molly-and-the-nields-at-joes-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Molly and The Nields at Joe’s Pub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I finally got to scratch an itch that I\u2019ve had since April 5th, 2008! That\u2019s the night that we first saw Sweet Bitters<\/a> live. I covered that show in this post<\/a>, but as you can see, in the comments, Sharon suggested that I check out Red Molly<\/a>. The minute I heard their stuff (you can hit the Play button on the top right of their site) I knew I would love their show.<\/p>\n

We had a failed attempt to see them that month (as I noted in the comments), and since then, I\u2019ve actively searched for opportunities, but scheduling kept conspiring against us. Until last night, finally!<\/p>\n

As a bonus, another group that I\u2019m pretty sure I heard about through Sweet Bitters (but I wouldn\u2019t swear to it), The Nields<\/a>, were opening for Red Molly.<\/p>\n

Red Molly were awesome, in every respect. They opened the show with an a capella number, showing off their amazing voices, individually, and collectively (in glorious harmonies). They also closed the show with an a cappella encore, again, sending shivers down our spines.<\/p>\n

Red Molly consists of three very talented ladies. Standing left-to-right on the stage:<\/p>\n

Abbie Gardner sings, plays dobro and acoustic guitar. She sings like an angel, usually taking the highest part in the harmonies, but she sang quite a bit of lead as well. She\u2019s an excellent dobro player (no one is in Jerry Douglas\u2019 league, so don\u2019t ask!). She plays the guitar well too. She also wrote at least one of the songs they played last night (Red Molly does more covers than originals), and it was excellent. Abbie was also very funny and engaging on the stage.<\/p>\n

\"Abbie<\/a>
Abbie Gardner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Laurie MacAllister sang, played the banjo, acoustic guitar, and acoustic bass. Laurie has an incredible voice, plays the banjo, guitar and bass well. I\u2019d never seen this style of acoustic bass<\/a> before. It looks exactly like a normal guitar, but it only has four strings, and sounds like an upright bass.<\/p>\n

\"Laurie<\/a>
Laurie MacAllister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carolann Solebello sang, played the acoustic guitar and acoustic bass. Carol also has an incredible voice, carrying the lower range for the group. She\u2019s also a talented guitar player, and handled the bass with aplomb as well. Of the three, Carolann is probably a little more animated on stage, but all three are extremely warm.<\/p>\n

\"Carolann<\/a>
Carolann Solebello<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They played for roughly 50 minutes, including the encore, and every note was a joy. After the show, we bought one of their CDs, and Lois got Abbie to sign it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>
Red Molly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Nields are two sisters, Nerissa and Katryna. Nerissa sings and plays the acoustic guitar. Katryna sings. Both have lovely voices, and they sing beautifully together. Nerissa plays the guitar well, and accompaniment and arrangements are traditional folk style (like Peter, Paul and Mary, etc.), which is one of my all-time favorite genres.<\/p>\n

\"Katryna<\/a>
Katryna Nields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Nerissa<\/a>
Nerissa Nields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They are both very warm and engaging with the audience. Katryna told a very long story (very well), and Nerissa took over at the end to make some corrections<\/em> (remember, they\u2019re sisters!) \ud83d\ude09 and it was funny and worth the break from the music (not that any break would be necessary when these two are on stage!).<\/p>\n

We bought their CD too after the show, and Lois got both of them to sign it. I\u2019m in the process of loading both the Red Molly and The Nields CDs onto my iPod as I type this, and we look forward to many listens in the months to come.<\/p>\n

Thanks to both Red Molly and The Nields for exceeding our very big expectations after such a long wait to finally get to see them perform live!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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