The Millwood Junction Restaurant in Mancos will host a musical performance by Patty Larkin on Thursday, Feb. 9 and Friday, Feb. 10. Both shows are scheduled for 8 p.m.
Tickets are $18 each and are available at the Millwood, Southwest Sound in Durango or Rocky Mountain One Stop in Cortez. Seating is limited.
Larkin has been heralded as part of the urban-folk/pop music phenomenon that spun off of the singer/songwriter explosion of the 1970s.
She has been reviewed by the likes of Rolling Stone, the Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Performing Songwriter, and NPR.
A self-described guitar driven songwriter, Larkins songs run from impressionistic poetry to witty wordplay.
In 2010, Larkin released a collectible collection of 25 songs in celebration of 25 years in the recording industry. Larkin reworked 25 of her favorite songs in the acoustic collection.
Larkin grew up in a musical and artistic family in Milwaukee, Wisc. Her mother was a painter and two sisters were both musicians. She started studying classical piano at age 7, and became swept up in the pop and folk sounds of the 1960s, teaching herself the guitar and experimenting with song writing along the way.
On her latest CD, 25, Larkin reworked 25 love songs and asked 25 friends to add any accompaniment they liked, all to celebrate her 25 years of making music. Special guests on the project include Shawn Colvin, Martin Sexton, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Suzanne Vega, Bruce Cockburn, Erin McKeown, Greg Brown, Merrie Amsterburg, and Jonatha Brooke, to name a few.