NPR Tiny Desk Contest winner Gaelynn Lea to bring Alan Sparhawk collaboration to Oakland

Photo: Eddy Gilmore If you've followed NPR Music's Tiny Desk contests, you may remember that the first winner was Oakland's own Fantastic Negrito. One year and two months later, we in the Bay Area are getting a wonderful opportunity to get to know the 2016 Tiny Desk Contest winner Gaelynn Lea in an intimate show on Wednesday with Low's Alan Sparhawk. The first time I heard the song that Lea performed in her Tiny Desk video, "Someday We'll Linger in the Sun," I honestly couldn't find words to describe the mood it created. I'm a sucker for deep feelings, but [...]

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