Paula Boggs Band with Kyra Gordon

Paula Boggs Band with Kyra Gordon
* Sunday, November 5, 8:00 pm

Paula Boggs Band blends jazz, rock and Americana. Debut album A Buddha State of Mind dropped a decade ago and “Carnival of Miracles,” in 2015. Their sound is “Seattle-Brewed Soulgrass”and the band tours across America and Canada.

Four years ago Paula Boggs Band released EP Live at Empty Sea, Songs of Protest & Hope and 3rd album Elixir, The Soulgrass Sessions. Mistletoe & Shiny Guitars, their first holiday song came in 2018.

EP Electrokitty Sessions and single America 2020, produced by multi-Grammy nominated Tucker Martine followed in 2020. Paula Boggs Band is sponsored by Deering Banjos, Breedlove Guitars and Radial Engineering. Their 4th studio album, also produced/engineered by Martine, releases January 28, 2022 in vinyl.

“Boggs is like the Dylan, the Peter, Paul, and Mary, the Joan Baez of this era.” – Phil King, AudioFuzz.com

Kyra Gordon has belted out Janis Joplin hits in a one-woman show, earned a conservatory degree interpreting jazz standards, and spent several years in the improvisational hip-hop group The Freeze, but it was the long road she traveled wending from Hollywood to New Orleans to a rural North Carolina commune to Paris that fueled her remarkable debut album Soul of a Showgirl.

The Berkeley vocalist, songwriter and pianist’s music flows from the vicissitudes of her footloose life, glinting with insights she’s gleaned along the way.

Possessing a rich, multi-hued voice that’s equally attuned to wry humor, headlong passion, bountiful gratitude and abject longing, Soul of a Showgirl is Gordon’s first album featuring her original material, and it introduces a songwriter with an outsized gift for setting emotionally incisive lyrics to beguiling melodic hooks.