Angie McMahon
El Club
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Detroit
Wednesday, August 14 at 7 pm EDT
Concert Venue
Wednesday, August 14 at 7 pm EDT
Concert Venue
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When nothing was going right, Angie McMahon started staring at the sky. Every day, she
would drag her mattress into her front yard, put a cold washer on her face and lay there
looking up; not moving, just observing. Lately she had been feeling that her life had fallen
apart, that her body was shutting down, that she had to relinquish the illusion she had any
real control over anything.
But above her, murmurations of birds would gather every afternoon, changing form – one
moment a fish, the next a wave. Forced by a bout of illness to slow down and tune in,
McMahon would watch the birds every day, noticing the cycles of nature that she hadn’t
stopped to see before. As they morphed and swelled, left and returned, the birds began to
reflect the things she’d been learning about life – that everything can and will change, and
the only constant is reinvention, rebirth, reconfiguration.
“It was a zoom out,” McMahon says. “My life just felt like it was really throwing me and going very badly. But the sky and the water, they were still very constant, and very balancing. I
found so much solace in that.”
That truth and the other quiet revelations Angie McMahon had about life, herself and the
universe over a tough but transformative few years have been poured into her new album,
Light, Dark, Light Again.
Presented by El Club.
All ages