Gig Alert: Karen Mantler Trio

ARTIST: Karen Mantler Trio

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GIG: Tonight at Barbes ($10 suggested)

Karen Mantler’s long singing career contains enough reinvention for six careers. She has a new CD coming out in June, so expect to hear some of that tonight when she plays at Barbes. But she might even play a few songs off her album Pet Project -- a musical homage to her dead cat, Arnold. Which...is why this song is called “My Cat Arnold Is Dead.”