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Singer-songwriter Kat Devlin by Jenny Aisenberg 12/13/07

If you’re anything like me, you probably spent most of the 90’s ignoring all music that wasn’t girls with acoustic guitars, and worshipped blissfully at the altars of Ani, Dar, and the Indigo Girls. Newport Folk Festival? I manned the recycling booth the summer after 9th grade, thank you, and saw all 3 of the folk-dyke Holy Trinity on the same day– way before Lilith Fair was even dreamed up down at girlpower headquarters (and yes, yes, I know Dar Williams isn’t a dyke. But try telling that to a mob of Smithies, and you will get beat down). If this in any way resembles your adolescence, if you enjoy the soulful and only occasionally angsty strummings of scrappy young riot grrrrlz with something to say and the voice to belt it, then get thee down to Brooklyn for a visit to Park Slope’s Perch Cafe. If you’re lucky, you’ll catch a set from Kat Devlin.

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