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Pearla – 2023 NMF Sycamore Sessions

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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Fresh off the release of her critically acclaimed debut full-length Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming (Spacebomb Records) Nicole Rodriguez (the Brooklyn-based musician who records as Pearla) entranced a curious Saturday afternoon crowd with her distinctive take on indie folk balladry at the 2023 Nelsonville Music Festival.

Rodriguez has been releasing music as Pearla since 2019, when her Quilting and Other Activities EP was released via Egghunt Records, earning her comparisons to everyone from Joni Mitchell to Connie Converse.

With a live line-up consisting of Rodriguez (vocals, guitar, synth) Tyler Postiglione (bass, vocals), Izzy Oram Brown (guitar, vocals), Jack McLoughlin (guitar, pedal steel), and Pele Greenberg (drums, percussion), Pearla performed the bulk of Oh Glistening Onion…,  plus Get in Touch With You, a song released only days before Pearla’s NMF ’23 appearance.

Rodriguez brought the recorded work of Pearla to life with her band’s strong rhythmic and harmonic connection, mixing acoustic, synth, and electric instruments with a kind of contemplative ease.

SET LIST
1. Strong (Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming) – 0:45
2. Ming The Clam (Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming) – 3:37
3. About Hunger, About Love (Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming) – 7:00
4. Unglow The (Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming) – 10:23
5. Get In Touch With You (2023 Single) – 15:07
6. With (Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming) – 20:07
7. Balm (Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming) – 23:47
8. The Place with No Weather (Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming) – 27:37
9. Effort (Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming) – 32:10
10. The Glistening Onion (Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming) – 40:01

The Sycamore Sessions are presented by the Nelsonville Music Festival in collaboration with WOUB Public Media and the Ohio University Scripps College of Communication’s School of Media Arts and Studies. The performances were recorded and produced by Media Arts and Studies students under the supervision of Host and Director Josh Antonuccio and Associate Producers – Director of Photography Andie Walla (Media Arts and Studies Associate Professor of Instruction), Audio Supervisor Adam Rich (WOUB), and WOUB’s Arts and Culture Editor Emily Votaw. All performances took place during the 2023 Nelsonville Music Festival, which is a production of Stuart’s Opera House.