they sang as one<\/a>. Over and over, they would drift closer together, forming a loose circle before returning to their stations, trading out instruments and generally making conjuring exquisite beauty seem as simple as drawing breath.<\/p>\nFrom the moment the three women materialized on stage, until their departure some 80-odd minutes later, it was a transcendent display of talent and one of the finest concerts yet seen in North Texas this year.<\/p>\n
That Friday\u2019s showcase, the trio\u2019s first appearance in Dallas in seven years (and its second headlining appearance at the Majestic), was also loose, funny and, frankly, life-affirming. It felt like nothing short of a magic trick.<\/p>\n
\u201cFolks, we were walking around downtown Dallas, and popped into Neiman Marcus, as one does,\u201d O\u2019Donovan offered at one point. \u201cDid you know you can buy champagne from a vending machine?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs there a white-gloved hand offering it to you?\u201d Watkins wondered. \u201cKeep us posted on what you find out,\u201d Wimberley native Jarosz cracked. \u201cThis is more of a beer crowd, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n
Apart, Watkins, Jarosz and O\u2019Donovan are each acclaimed singer-songwriters, recipients of countless industry honors and wholly capable of transfixing an audience single-handedly. (Opener Jon Muq, an Austin-based singer-songwriter who caught the ear of the Black Keys\u2019 Dan Auerbach, did a superb job captivating the room single-handedly, his bright, pop-flecked folk songs provoking enthusiastic applause.)<\/p>\n
Together, the expressions of self, in service of the collective, are no less moving to behold. Friday\u2019s crowd might have been on the criminally thin side, but those gathered in the Majestic Theatre, judging from the largely reverent silence, understood the magnitude of what they were beholding.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Opening up with \u201cFind My Way to You,\u201d a track from the supergroup\u2019s sophomore album, Wild and Clear and Blue, I\u2019m With Her, backed by nothing more than tasteful lighting and expansive drapes printed with images of a forest at sunset, filled the air with its tripartite harmonies, floating along on fiddle, mandolin and acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n
The group, which exudes a breezy camaraderie, draws from folk, but also reaches beyond to incorporate country, pop, gospel and bluegrass, as exemplified by its choice of covers Friday: The Chuck Wagon Gang\u2019s tangy hymn \u201cLord, Lead Me On\u201d and Joni Mitchell\u2019s achingly romantic \u201cCarey,\u201d stylistically poles apart, but emblematic of the elasticity and dexterity of I\u2019m With Her\u2019s skillset.<\/p>\n
As impressive as the seamless vocal blend was the delicate, tensile strength of the playing \u2014 Watkins and Jarosz and O\u2019Donovan deftly traded between a multitude of stringed instruments throughout. The tempos accelerated and slowed on a dime; cascading harmonies were matched by the lively fiddle in counterpoint to the lightly picked mandolin or banjo and steadily strummed acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Something Watkins said as she introduced \u201cAin\u2019t That Fine,\u201d a song from the group\u2019s 2018 debut, See You Around, lingered as a striking way to summarize the entire evening: \u201cIt\u2019s about the magical moments that sneak up on us \u2014 we\u2019ll celebrate all that for a few minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
At a moment of such division, cruelty and ugliness, evident even if you pay only cursory attention to the events of the world, the serendipity of art \u2014 the sheer alchemy of I\u2019m With Her \u2014 provided several hundred humans with a respite of unity, beauty and grace. The vibrations of the strings and the resonance of the vocal cords emanated out into the darkness, binding us all together for a brief while.<\/p>\n
The night was, indeed, extraordinary \u2014 a tonic for troubled times, soothing souls with the simplicity of the human voice, leaping into the air, wild and clear and blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan are the supergroup I’m With Her. Alysse Gafkjen The three women…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":259444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,12079,358,132131,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,51561],"class_list":{"0":"post-259443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-nightlife","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-touring-artists","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-venues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115277837722203114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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