Theresa Andersson is one of music’s most engaging and innovative performers. The spritely, one-woman band has amazed us in the past with her incredible live shows and engaging music videos. Now, the clip for “Oh Mary” combines the two, capturing Andersson on stage as she cobbles the bouncy spiritual together one blissful loop at a time.
The video is an excerpt from her new concert DVD, Theresa Andersson: Live at Le Petit, on sale exclusively through her website. The performance in question was recorded on February 8, 2010 at Le Petit Theatre in her hometown of New Orleans. Directed by Bridget Palardy, the concert film showcases Andersson’s boundless talent and unassuming charm.
If you think it’s amazing how much mileage Andersson gets out of a violin and some pedals, check out Live at Le Petit to see what happens when she throws all those guitars and drums into the mix.
If you’ve ever seen Theresa Andersson live, chances are you’ve fallen in love with her. The one-woman band brings so much intoxicating energy to her performances that it’s impossible to not be taken in by her talent and charm. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of seeing her in concert, some live clips can be found in the new video for “Birds Fly Away”, the latest single off her Hummingbird, Go! album.
Directed by Miranda Penn Turin, the clip sets Andersson against the backdrop of her New Orleans hometown, and the still-ravaged-looking locale adds a layer of bittersweetness to the proceedings.
Andersson will be performing at a benefit concert at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center on December 9th, after which she’ll head back into the studio to begin work on her as-yet-untitled new album. We’ve got the video for you above.
The crowd at the Casbah gazed skeptically at the short, spritely Swedish woman in their midst. Scheduled as the opening act for Tapes ‘N Tapes and Wild Light—two fast, all-male rock bands—the woman quietly ascended to a stage littered with unmanned instruments. When she introduced the inanimate objects as her band, and people realized that she would be playing all of them by herself, the venue’s early arrivals began to nervously eye the exits. But all that changed when Theresa Andersson took off her shoes.
