Jazz Fest Highlights: Theresa Andersson

This show was pretty much the same as the one I saw last month at French Quarter Fest, but she's worked out the bugs in getting set up for her one woman band at the start of the show. Still it was a good show last month and it was just as good this month. She starts off with a very good version of "Mary, Don't You Weep." I would place this version alongside Springsteen's recent version with the Seeger Sessions. For the first few songs she does she performs as a one woman band, playing all the instruments and using her laptop to loop her voice she can harmonize with herself. Her new album coming out this summer was recorded like this, she played all the instruments on it and she's trying to recreate this on stage. After a few songs she brings out the rest of the band. One big difference from her French Quarter show is that band is not dressed as mimes, I'm not sure what that was about. But as always Theresa puts on a great show.