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| Photo | Rachel Playe |
Lavender Diamond’s lead singer Becky Stark recently posted a rather cutesy blurb on her
website. It starts out, “Do you know that this is the beginning of the era of true love?” And so, when she ends her set with the proclamation “Let’s hear it for peace coming to planet earth,” I am not at all surprised. Unlike ol’ hippy dippies of yore like Timothy Leary, though, Stark seems completely genuine in her childlike, optimistic take on life. The girl joined the League of Women Voters when she was seven, so you know she’s not talkin’ New Age trash. And she spins you into her ain’t-the-world-grand web on stage. Fitting right into Johnny Brenda’s restored-theater vibe, Stark twirled around in her ruffly emerald dress and jabbered about “gangster elf eco-liberation comedy.” She played nearly every song from Imagine Our Love, a lighthearted folk-rock album with lofty, showtune vocals and flamboyant instrumentation. Strange then, that the group is rather minimalistic in person. A quiet band of guitar, keyboard and two drums backed Stark’s hesitant soprano. The change in delivery wasn’t a disappointment, though - it actually made their whole positive-thinking shtick more believable. The show’s climax took place when Stark hit the high notes in “Open Your Heart.” Squeaking only occasionally, she sounded just like the bird I’m sure she thinks she was in a past life.
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