May 2016

Live Show Review by Jennifer Lane
On a clear Spring night on April Fool’s
Day 2016, a cadre of female musicians
gathered to pay tribute to that seminal
band, “The Police” and some guy called Gordon
Matthew Thomas Sumner (affectionately
known to all as “Sting”). This review is a loose
accounting of the magic those women wove
that night, interspersing tribute songs with
their own wonderful songs - in the up close and
intimate listening environment that the Hideaway
Café does so well.
The evening was MC’d by the talented and
lovely PaMela Palumbo, whose “Twirl Girl Promotions”
is heavily and gratefully entwined
with our local music scene.
First on the gorgeous Hideaway Café stage,
with a grand piano shining behind her in purple
light, was singer/songwriter Lisa Noe. Lisa got
the show off to a great start with “Every Little
Thing She Does is Magic” after she amusingly
introduced the song as by “Sting, that amazing
musical madman.” A self-penned song with an
empowering message followed, “Big Beautiful
Woman,” and the amusing “Hot Flash in the
City” (not to be confused with “Hot Child in the
City”, ya’ll).
My personal favorite Sting/Police tribute by
Lisa was her beautiful rendition of “King of
Pain” and a close second would be “Fields of
Gold”. You could feel Gordon M. T. Sumner
Lisa Noe
nodding approvingly from wherever he was
strumming his guitar that evening. Perhaps her most amusing story was the back story on a song called “Rebound
Girl”, written on a somewhat unusual form of writing paper in a public place. Contact Lisa to find out the rest of
that story…