Basia Bulat’s concert at the Calgary Folk Music Festival this Sunday may be the only time fans here get to see the Montreal-based singer-songwriter playing the songs from her latest album, The Garden, with a string quartet. The album, which came out in February, features Bulat reinterpreting songs from her five previous studio collections of folk-flavoured rootsy pop, with a group of string players.
“It was interesting because I’d been doing a few shows with a string quartet and I was thinking, ‘This is really cool,’ ” said Bulat. “It’s like painters doing studies of the same thing over and over. I was listening to Willie Nelson a lot, and he’s a real reinterpreter. And I found this one LP of his, I felt like it had fallen through the cracks of time and space, and he was redoing some of his own songs, and other songs that I’d heard him do different versions of. He’s a great interpreter.
“I remember reading an interview with Lou Reed and he said he had no idea what his songs are about. The journalist was interpreting that he was just being difficult, but being in that position myself, we think we know all about our songs, but they’re always revealing something new over time.”Article content
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