Lindsey Stirling Review at Express Live in Colubud

Don't expect a somber, spotlighted violinist when Lindsey Stirling performs.

"My shows ever have really fun costume changes and props, and we've built this whole new set up, very whimsical set," the 35-twelvemonth-old violinist, songwriter and dancer said, speaking by telephone from Los Angeles.

"But what'southward new this year is that two of my dancers and I have been in aeriform training, so we'll be doing some trapeze work and some lyra (aerial hoop). We've been working pretty hard to go our strength and flexibility up so we tin practice those tricks, and it's all starting to come up together. In ane of the aerial numbers, I'll be playing violin while I'chiliad upward in the air, and in another, I'll be singing," she said.

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That combination of aerial work and musical performance doesn't exactly come naturally.

"It always feels so impossible at the showtime," she said. "You lot have to acquire the two things on their own so well that they start to get ane, through awkward practicing. In that location'due south e'er that moment when you start to combine the two, and information technology'due south like, 'Aghhh! This is awkward and embarrassing and terrible.' Then of a sudden, the two things start becoming i muscle memory through your whole trunk, and that'southward when it works."

Lindsey Stirling to bring Christmas magic to Columbus stage

She will also be doing some more earthbound Christmas numbers in the bear witness, which nowadays challenges of their own.

"You've got to brand them familiar, merely you've got to make them stand out. Everybody and their dog is making a Christmas album these days," she said. "I have the wonderful luxury that automatically my project is going to be different because it's instrumental, more often than not. There's a whimsy about my music. I'yard always thinking, How can we brand this sound magical? How can we make this feel dance-y?"

The violin helps in that quest.

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"I retrieve the violin has so much emotion in it. And Christmas is all about emotion, whether it'due south people feeling spiritual or jovial and happy or nostalgic. There's nothing improve to bring out those emotions than the violin," she said.

She is non 1 of those artists who won't pick favorites amidst her songs.

"I love 'Carol of the Bells,'" she said. "I worked really difficult to make that the all-time song on the Christmas album. And then I did the bonus tracks for the album, and 'I Wonder As I Wander' became my favorite."

Stirling branches out from theatre to write autobiography, comic books

Stirling, not one to confine herself to a single medium, wrote an autobiography, "The Only Pirate at the Political party," in 2017.

In 2019, she branched out to write a series of six comic books, based on her latest album, "Artemis."

"As I was making the anthology, I was trying to figure out what the theme and through-line was, and I actually came to dear the symbolism that the moon represents," she said.

"The more I looked into Artemis, who is the goddess of the moon, the more I got interested in her, and earlier I knew it, I had started to develop a story in my head of this goddess and where she came from and why the moon goes in phases and is sometimes strong and sometimes weak.

"I started thinking, this is more than an anthology, this is a whole narrative. And then it was fun to make the album almost a soundtrack theme to these different moments of the whole story."

Stirling hasn't run out of ideas yet.

"I have some projects that I've been writing for film and TV, and I'one thousand hoping that they get greenlighted," she said. "If so, that's what I'll piece of work on a lot adjacent twelvemonth. If not, it'south all skilful, I'll be working on a rock album. I've got some plans."

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At a glance

Lindsey Stirling will perform at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8, in the Palace Theatre, 34 W. Broad St. Masks and proof of vaccination or negative COVID test are required. Tickets: $48.63 to $103.75. VIP tickets also bachelor. (514-469-0939, www.capa.com)

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Source: https://www.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/2021/12/02/performer-extraordinaire-lindsey-stirling-coming-columbus/8740636002/

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