Allison Russell (Night 1)

1245 Chicago Avenue,Evanston IL 60202

07 December, 2021

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Allison Russell (Night 1) ALL AGES Allison Russell Allison Russell at SPACE in Evanston, IL // Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm // Tickets: $22– $34 COVID-19 PolicyAll attendees, staff, and artists are required to provide proof of full vaccination (2 weeks from the final dose) in order to enter the venue. This policy is in effect until further notice for all shows and events at SPACE. Please consult evanstonspace.com for the most up-to-date information and policies on masks and COVID safety inside the venue. Regardless of vaccination status, all guests, artists, and staff will be required to wear a mask over their nose and mouth while inside the venue. Masks will be available at the box office for those who arrive without one. GENRE: Americana ABOUT THE ARTIST Allison's new album, Outside Child -- that draws water from the dark well of a violent past -- is her first solo offering, she also being a pivotal voice in two bands: Birds of Chicago and Our Native Daughters. And telling her own story sounds now to have made her free -- not from it all, but free within it: to reframe and reclaim her identity and its singular authority. The songs themselves -- though iron-hard in their concerns -- are exultant: exercising haunted dream like clean bedsheets snapped and hung out into broad daylight, and with the romantic poet's lust for living and audacity of endurance. Nina Simone comes to mind, as well Edith Piaf: two shamanistic practitioners who turned their faces into the blade of storm and roared back dignity and hope. This music, no less -- no less -- is a triumph: a courageous work -- burnished and bright; unspeakably beautiful as she sings the unspeakable. Above all, it is an act of remarkable generosity: a cathartic, soulful, buoyant and redeeming gift to us all and, one must believe, to herself as well. -Joe Henry Bath, Maine ARTIST WEBSITE Allison Russell SPACE is a live music hall in Evanston, Ill., established in 2008.