“I know it’s weird,” Tanya Tagaq said of her music on Friday night at National Geographic. Tagaq’s emotional stage presence was both a strength and weakness, as she vacillated between cathartic release while throat-singing and vapid philosophizing while singing conventionally. Despite the low points, the performance, which mostly consisted of a single long improvisation bolstered by the considerable talents of Tagaq’s sidemen, was powerful, unique, and not one that many in attendance will forget anytime soon.
More photos after the jump and at the full gallery.
