Hawksley Workman
Bronson Centre, Ottawa ON – 8th May 2006
The Hawksley Workman show last night was amazing. On stage it was just him with his Pianist, Mr Lonely, keeping the whole show really intimate and personal. Between songs Hawksley kept the crowd entertained with stories of snowmobile tea and of his fascination with the Canadian Governor General, Michaelle Jean. During the show the crowd got further drawn in, when Hawksley set up a recording of the crowd shouting “HEY” To be used as part of the recording of a track on the next album. I can’t wait to listen to it to see if I can pick it out.
Most of the show was to promote the latest album “Treeful of Starling” but there were still quite a few songs from previous albums, the extended version of “Anger as Beauty” was a favourite of mine. The highlight for me though was when Hawksley came out to do a second encore. Playing only a Banjo, and sitting right on the edge of the stage, Hawksley lead a sing along of “We Will Still Need A Song” as all the crowd gathered around him. Fantastic.
