Jonathan Coulton is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book Lectures, and a past guest on Slice of SciFi. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, partially-imagined historical figures, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good. They repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. And the sick part is, you keep coming back. Coulton’s is the voice of every spooky elementary school kid who could never quite keep his shirt tucked in or shoes tied; every lovelorn mason and mad scientist; every one of us who has ever sat despairingly on the floor, surrounded by parts of an Ikea endtable, weeping over our allen wrenches. He is ready to soft-rock your socks off.
Paul Sabourin and Greg “Storm” DiCostanzo have been writing and performing original music together for more nearly fifteen years. Described by the Washington Post as “energetic and quick-witted,” their harmonies are as sharp as their humor. The duo is well known from their work with the band Da Vinci’s Notebook, and from the nationally-syndicated “Bob and Tom” radio show. No subject is sacred to this energetic pair as they keep audiences laughing with their humorous and satirical original songs. Paul and Storm’s songs are as catchy and musically interesting as they are funny, and in live performance their harmonies draw comparisons to the Everly Brothers, while their stage presence evokes the Barenaked Ladies.
When:
Feb 20, 2009 7:30 pm (Friday)
Where:
The Birchmere (map) 3701 Mount Vernon Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22305
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