Moira Smiley at Joe's Pub

Gig Alerts | Jun 19, 2019

Moira Smiley at Joe's Pub, Sat., June 22
Tickets: $18. Show at 7 pm.

Vocalist Moira Smiley has studied, and recorded, songs from the old vocal traditions of Serbia, Sweden, and Appalachia. She weaves techniques from all of those traditions – especially those associated with women’s voices – into her own songwriting, a process she has described as bumping “up against my culture's limited ideas of what a female voice should sound like, and sing about.” Here, Moira Smiley evokes the sounds of West Africa, Eastern Europe, and the American south, in a song called Bellow.

Moira Smiley performs Saturday night, June 22, at Joe’s Pub.

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