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Jolie Holland, Andrew Cervantes at the Ivy Room

  • Ivy Room 860 San Pablo Ave Albany CA 94706 (map)

Doors 8pm, show 9pm. 21+

$25 adv., $30 door. BUY ADV. TICKETS

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Over the span of her career, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American song—jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll—into some stew that is impossible to categorize with any conventional critical terminology. This is her burden and her gift, to know all of these American songs of the last ten decades in her head and her heart, and to have to wrestle with their legacy. She dives straight to the pathos of a song the way the very greatest singers, singers like Mavis Staples, or Al Green, or Skip James, or Tom Waits do. Upon first encounter her songs seem challenging, perhaps unsettling at times, but as so many poets and rockers have shown us (from Dante Alighieri to William Blake to Sylvia Plath to Patti Smith to Nick Cave to Mark E. Smith) that's where the beauty lies.


Andrew Cervantes was born and raised in San Diego and now lives and records in the bay area. Inspired by songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, Merle Haggard,
and Guy Clark, Andrew's lyrics are distinctly his own, with beautiful, haunting images of landscapes both internal and external; stories of traveling, searching, rambling, and
experiencing the impermanence of life and love. He is currently recording his first album set to be released this spring.