ellery @ the rudyard kipling/louisville - june (friday the) 13th, 2008

tonight ellery, the husband and wife duo of tasha and justin golden (on piano/vocals and guitar respectively) played an opening set for garrison starr @ the legendary "rudyard kipling" in old louisville. it was a beautiful set in an intimate room with great sound. unfortunately, it was under-attended, but that didn't effect tasha and justin, they played like it was a full house.

i was first exposed to them via over the rhine a few years ago and have seen them 6-8 times since and love what they do more and more each time i see them. tasha has one of the more beautiful, sweet but yet powerful voices that i have heard lately. they are excellent writers, with touching, meaningful and thought prevoking lyrics with beautiful melodies. in other words, they do it all and they do it well. very well.

i got a chance to spend quite a bit of time just chatting about music, people, politics and nothing in particular with them before the show and they are truly generous, nice people, funny and insightful and lovers of music, each other and what they do. as wonderful people as they are artists. which always makes finding and supporting performers like this so much more enjoyable and rewarding.

find out more about them @ http://www.ellerymusic.com

OtR tomorrow night in new harmony. :)