Concert Review: The Love Hangover, Sunday, February 15, at the Record Bar
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The concept is simple and kind of genius: get male-female duets to sing songs about love the day after Valentine’s Day. Devised by a guy named Richard Alwyn in North Carolina ten years ago, the Love Hangover took place yesterday in only four cities nationwide: Ann Arbor, Brooklyn, Raleigh and Kansas City. Why so few? Perhaps its because few places have singer-songwriter-organizers as enterprising as Alwyn, or, locally, Scott Easterday, who has organized the Love Hangover two years now. (Last year’s was at Davey’s.) Or maybe it’s because people have had enough of silly love songs.
That wasn’t the case last night at the Record Bar, where a hundred or so people, mostly 30s and up (I freakin’ felt young), filled with their well-heeled, loveworn souls every available seat in the place as one by one, duets got up on stage and did about eight songs each. First up were Bev and Aaron Weidner of local band the New Tragedies, then Howard Iceberg and Amy Farrand, followed by Barclay Martin and Sara Swenson and lastly, diva/divo combo Valery Price and Nathan Granner, with Jeffrey Ruckman on piano.
