Music

GIRLYMAN
with guest artist ADRIANNE
Imagine a modern-day Peter, Paul & Mary — only edgier, sexier, and with a quirky sense of humor. Girlyman's harmony-driven style veers from contemporary folk to country rock to pop. Each member switches off songwriting duties, lead vocals, and a range of instruments, including acoustic guitar, djembe, banjo, baritone guitar and mandolin.
Nate Borofsky, Doris Muramatsu, and Ty Greenstein scheduled the group's first rehearsal for September 11, 2001. Doris and Ty, who met in the second grade, had recently abandoned their former project as a duo; their friend Nate had just moved to New York after four years in Boston. When all three suddenly found themselves living in the same Brooklyn apartment, it seemed only natural to combine their talents into a new group. According to Nate, the rehearsal was quickly forgotten, but the events of September 11 helped shape the trio's vision: "It brought us in touch with our own mortality. We realized that we wanted to have fun, to do what felt right to us, and to not take ourselves too seriously. We started out by calling ourselves Girlyman."
In 2004 Girlyman released its debut CD Remember Who I Am on Amy Ray's indie imprint Daemon Records. Since then the band has toured nationally with the Indigo Girls and Dar Williams; has appeared on internationally syndicated radio shows like Mountain Stage; and has performed at major festivals, including the Winnipeg, Philadelphia and Boston Folk Festivals, as well as Falcon Ridge.
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Opening the show is Adrianne, an award-winning, LA-based singer and songwriter with "a voice that's uniquely beautiful and moving and songs that go straight for the truth and will have you humming them in your head for days.”
Mon Sep 10 | 8 pm
CSPS | 1103 Third St SE | Cedar Rapids
$12 advance | $15 day of show

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