Timbre and The Soil and The Sun serenade in a house show

By Brad Krohe

In 2004, Joanna Newsom made a splash with her harp-centered album, The Milk-Eyed Mender. For many people, the harp broke free from the confines of traditional genre assignments, only to be confined to another: the fairly self-descriptive “freak folk.” Nashville songtress Timbre (full name: Timbre Cierpke) masterfully employed the instrument at a house show last night. On tour with ethereal folk rockers The Soil and The Sun, the classically-trained harpist treated spectators to a grand-scale set of chamber rock.