Sharon Van Etten

Doors Open: 9:00pm
Show Time: 10:00pm
The Ballroom

Artists

  • Sharon Van Etten

  • Damien Jurado

Event Information

Haunting songstress Sharon Van Etten will return to Cincinnati this November in support of her excellent album Tramp. The shimmering sound of Sharon Van Etten's Jagjaguwar debut album Tramp both defies and illuminates the unsteadiness of a life in flux.

Throughout the 14 months of scattered recording sessions, Van Etten was without a home -- crashing with friends and storing her possessions between varied locations. The only constant in Van Etten's life during this time was spent in the garage studio of The National's Aaron Dessner.

A two year journey brought her to that point of instability. Upon the release of epic (Ba Da Bing; 2010), Sharon Van Etten surprised the music world with a touching embrace. Having established herself as a reliable performer around New York, and coming off the release of her spartan first effort, Because I Was In Love (Language of Stone; 2009), Van Etten created a short album of diverse songs connected by a shared goal of expanded sound and her unmistakable voice. Fans quickly picked favorites, discovered their choices changing, then changing yet again. That is the magic of epic; the intricate, understated record covered so much ground within its 33 minutes, it required more than an initial half hour to absorb. Since epic's release, she has opened the Pitchfork Music Festival, played The Hollywood Bowl with Neko Case and at Radio City Music Hall with The Antlers, sung on new records for Beirut and Ed Askew, and collaborated with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and Megafaun on the Songs Of The South project.

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This is a past event

This event occurred on Thursday, November 8, 2012.