Join the SPL for a live music performance from local performer Travels With Brindle!
If your favorite book was music, what would it sound like? Local songwriter and busker Chelsea Spear spent the COVID 19 lockdown writing an album inspired by Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot. Fans of bookish jangle pop will want to check this out!
About Travels With Brindle:
Chelsea Spear has been a music critic, a show promoter, a college radio host, and a video director… but all she really wanted to do was start a band. Not long after learning to play the ukulele, she formed the bedroom recording project Travels With Brindle. Her melodic original songs and wry, poignant lyrics have attracted a growing audience at open mics and busking pitches in the Greater Boston area. Spear is inspired by lo-fi songwriters and jangle pop acts of the 1980s and ‘90s, and her work has been compared to the Marine Girls, the Raincoats, Courtney Barnett, and Liz Phair. Currently Spear is recording her first full album of original songs, led by a well-received series of 2022 singles that includes “Ivan,” “Linden Street,” and “Something’s Wrong.”
This program is made possible by the Friends of the Public Library. Thanks, Friends!
