A little ditty from lovely Lindi:
Date: March 3, 2010
Location: Supermarket in Toronto, Ontario www.supermarkettoronto.com.
The musical acts for the evening include:
Sara Kamin
Mandipaal Jandu
The FrameWork
Emma-Lee
The Donefors
Dylan Murray
Lindi Ortega
For more details, visit the Facebook Event page.
Many, many thanks to Lindi Ortega, a singer/songwriter from Toronto, who has so generously organized this wonderful evening of music.
As she puts it, she’s “a crazy bird lady, storm chasin’, red lipstick, red boot wearin’, guitar slinging, singer/songwriter gal”. And we have to add: owner of a huge heart!
With one foot in the outsider troubadour camp best exemplified by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Leonard Cohen, and another in the old school country integrity of Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, Lindi Ortega fuses both these influences with gifted observation on her first single, “Dying Of Another Broken Heart”. Linda Ortega’s knack for narrative imagery can be heard on “All My Friends”, a spirited acoustic number that finds her personifying numerous vices and vocalizing some poignant irony.
The compelling and reality-challenged “Black Fly” and the itinerant “Drifter” round out on appetite-whetting The Drifter E.P., a precursor to a full length Lindi Ortega CD due later this summer. The four songs offer a slice-of-life-honesty that is as organic as Lindi’s self-evolved talent. Since signing to Cherrytree, Lindi Ortega has played SXSW, performed in the U.K. and North America and opened for James Blunt, Ray Davies and Noah and The Whale.