Review and Photos by Greg Wong
Singer-songwriter Miya Folick gathered a crowd at Brighton Music Hall this April for an intimate performance of her third album Erotica Veronica. The Boston stop was one of only a handful of northeastern stops on a tour that Folick described as purposefully “light” and “very deliberate.”
Fellow Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Olivia Kaplan was the sole opener for the evening, but she was featured significantly beyond her solo set throughout the evening. Kaplan won the crowd over to the point that she was able to conduct them in a call-and-response, but she wasn’t above calling in backup. She brought Miya Folick on stage for a duet, a gesture that Folick would later reciprocate.
Miya Folick emerged from backstage with her full band for her headlining set. She showcased her newest self-produced LP Erotica Veronica in its entirety, and between songs she chatted casually with the audience. Her lyrics painted a vulnerable self-portrait that was reflected vibrantly in the accompanying musical execution, and she took the time between songs to tune her fresh guitar strings and elaborate on the album. She commented about how “so much of Erotica Veronica is about being bad at love,” how the song “Felicity” is about the word, not a person, and the hopefulness of the album’s final track “Light Through the Linen.” She also found the time to openly contemplate a friendly couple she had met earlier while birding at the Mount Auburn Cemetery.
She eventually reintroduced Olivia Kaplan to the stage, and for an additional three songs Kaplan and Folick sang together. Erotica Veronica’s intimate, confessional themes seemed to bleed into the atmosphere of the room. Comfortably at ease on stage and lamenting the literal distance between herself and fans behind the barricade, Folick quipped that such safety measures felt intended “for a very different kind of show.” Emotional—if not physical—closeness was enough in the end, and show attendees could count themselves lucky to have caught Miya Folick on her flyby of Massachusetts.
Check out all of Greg’s photos from the show below.
