Dawn Kinnard
Grizzly Bear Review: Tuesday June 29, 2010
Back to the Bandstand and Dawn Kinnard greets us with a wistful look in her eyes. You can sense this girl is going to be a little different.
The broken-up body stance seamlessly compliments the off-kilter vocals which emerge from Dawn in seemingly random yet rhythmic spurts. As she softly repeats “Do you like to be all by yourself?” and answers her own question in the affirmative, you get a sense of inextricable bond between musician and the wonderful loneliness of the creative process. She sings as if to herself, in a husky delta-blues voice, reliving the experiences that she later put into lyrics. Dawn introduces her song 'Queen Of The World' as a “grandiose delusion” – not so, for this talented young woman, who the audience surely felt was the queen of the evening, at the very least.
