Sarah McLachlan has made her NPR Tiny Desk debut. <\/p>\n
The Canadian singer-songwriter showed how expressive she can be during her five-song set at the popular performance series. <\/p>\n
McLachlan kicks off her set with an acoustic rendition of her classic \u201cBuilding A Mystery,\u201d giving the Lilith Fair documentary’s namesake<\/a> an almost-country-folk sound. As McLachlan\u2019s gentle voice soars throughout the song, she captures the audience\u2019s attention from the first guitar strum. The 1997 track struck a chord on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 22 weeks on the ranking and peaking at No. 13.<\/p>\n She graciously thanks the audience before introducing herself and her band, Hamilton husband-wife duo Luke Doucet (guitar) and Melissa McClelland (bass) of the duo Whitehorse \u2014 both of whom are longtime collaborators of McLachlan and provide background vocals during the set. \u201cThese guys have been with me forever,” she says.<\/p>\n “We’re super happy to be here. Thought we’d do a cross-section of old stuff and new stuff,” McLachlan continues, before introducing \u201cReminds Me,\u201d a love song from her tenth studio album, Better Broken, released last September<\/a>. The record spent one week on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, debuting at No. 28<\/a>. <\/p>\n Originally, \u201cReminds Me\u201d is a duet with MUNA singer Katie Gavin, but McLachlan holds her own on the solo version. <\/p>\n \u201cDuring COVID I watched a lot of TV, as I’m sure a lot of us did, and I went down the Yellowstone rabbit hole and kind of fell in love with that country, cowboy music stuff,” she reveals. “My sweetie’s birthday was coming up so I thought I’m gonna try to write him a love song and set a dangerous precedent for myself.”<\/p>\n After playing \u201cOnly Human,” she expresses the need to focus on performing amongst the colourful knick-knacks lining the shelves in the background of the performance series. “I cannot look at this stuff when I’m playing, I’m so ADD,” the artist told the audience. “I look up, and I’m just like, ‘Oh, shiny things!’ So distracting.”<\/p>\n Closing out her set, McLachlan plays piano versions of some of her biggest hits from 1997\u2019s Surfacing, including \u201cAdia\u201d and \u201cAngel.\u201d The tracks peaked at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, on the Hot 100, while Surfacing hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n Canadian artists have been faring well on the popular concert series of late. Earlier this year, Daniel Caesar made his grand return<\/a> after eight years, while The Beaches scored their Tiny Desk debut<\/a> last October. <\/p>\n Watch McLachlan\u2019s full Tiny Desk concert below:<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah McLachlan has made her NPR Tiny Desk debut. The Canadian singer-songwriter showed how expressive she can be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,6002,69,30819],"class_list":["post-282650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-npr-tiny-desk","tag-nz","tag-sarah-mclachlan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}