{"id":159,"date":"2011-04-09T06:26:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T10:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2011-04-09T07:09:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T11:09:03","slug":"wailin-jennys-at-the-birchmere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/wailin-jennys-at-the-birchmere\/","title":{"rendered":"Wailin&#8217; Jennys at the Birchmere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since becoming captivated by their heavenly harmonies, I had been itching to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewailinjennys.com\/\">Wailin&#8217; Jennys<\/a> in concert, waiting until they were close enough for me to drive to them. On 4\/7\/09 they came to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birchmere.com\/\">Birchmere<\/a>, and I jumped. It was a wonderful concert. I had been up until 3 AM the morning of the concert grading papers, and had class that morning as well, followed by the three and a half hour drive to Alexandria, but my sleep deprivation was completely forgotten once the Jennys began singing. This was their set list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arlington<\/li>\n<li> Beautiful Dawn<\/li>\n<li> Intro: Manitoba, Man-it&#8217;-o-ba (This wasn&#8217;t a song, but a spoken intro of the Jennys&#8217; impressions of the US while traveling it doing concerts. Very funny.)<\/li>\n<li> Old Man<\/li>\n<li> Bring me little water Silvie (which showcased the amazing range of Heather Masse, hitting bass notes as well as any tenor)<\/li>\n<li> Drivin&#8217;<\/li>\n<li> Deeper Well (an Emmylou Harris cover, and not a Jennys standard at the time)<\/li>\n<li> Glory Bound<\/li>\n<li> Motherless Child<\/li>\n<li> One More Dollar<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Paint a Picture&#8221;? (not sure of the title on this one; it was a new one from Heather Masse)<\/li>\n<li> Happy Birthday to You (in five-part harmony!)<\/li>\n<li> Heaven When We&#8217;re Home<\/li>\n<li> Payin&#8217;? Rayin? Pagin? Ragin? (very much not sure of the title of this one)<\/li>\n<li> Weary Blues<\/li>\n<li> Racing with the Sun<\/li>\n<li> Avila<\/li>\n<li>One Voice<\/li>\n<li>The Parting Glass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last two were the encore, and the best of the concert. The last was heartrendingly beautiful; the Jennys stepped to the very front of the stage, and the lights went down. The hall became so quiet I could hear Heather softly hum their starting pitch, then they began: a nearly perfect, achingly beautiful rendition of an old Irish tune.<\/p>\n<p>And then, alas, it was over. The only thing that could have made it better was the inclusion of some of Annabelle Chvostik&#8217;s material (Apocolypse Lullaby, Devil&#8217;s Paintbrush Road), but considering that those were songs she had written before she joined, she probably wanted to retain exclusive rights to them after having left.<\/p>\n<p>The only outright blemish of the evening? The audience, one of whose drunken members couldn&#8217;t resist shouting &#8220;Nice makeup!&#8221; to the Jennys. Nice rudeness, jerk. Feel free to be nicely absent the next time they perform there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since becoming captivated by their heavenly harmonies, I had been itching to see the Wailin&#8217; Jennys in concert, waiting until they were close enough for me to drive to them. On 4\/7\/09 they came to the Birchmere, and I jumped. It was a wonderful concert. I had been up until 3 AM the morning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/wailin-jennys-at-the-birchmere\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wailin&#8217; Jennys at the Birchmere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[61,20],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-birchmere","tag-wailin-jennys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rmW5-2z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}