Recording: Plastic Babies

Artist: Plastic Babies

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Burdock Music Hall (Women From Space Festival – Night 4), March 11, 2019.

Plastic Babies - [excerpt]

The first Women From Space Festival saw four excellent concerts take place over the course of the International Women's Day weekend. Organized by Bea Labikova and Kayla Milmine, the festival felt like a really savvy gathering, always more than the sum of its parts and showcasing the depth of talent in the city's various creative music streams in a women-centred environment.

This trio of vocalists Laura Swankey and Christine Duncan and guitarist Patrick O'Reilly has now been graced with a band name, but that hasn't changed their freewheeling approach. Rather than a verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus kind of structure, their sets work more like a church service in a hymn-homily-hymn-benediction mode.

[Duncan will be bringing her Element Choir to an event dubbed "Sung Ra" (Saturday, May 18th at The Tranzac's Main Hall), where Ottawa's Rakestar Arkestra will be "giving new voice and many voices to the wondrous compositions of jazz giant Sun Ra".]