Aimee Mann & John Roderick ended their tour in NYC (pics)

photos by Dominick Mastrangelo

Aimee Mann @ MHOW

Aimee Mann‘s concert at Carnegie Hall in New York on Saturday night (Jan. 28) was for the birds. Or, at least, birdcalls.

The singer/songwriter has humbly admitted in the past that crafting small talk on stage between songs is slightly beyond her comfort zone. How far so? On her 2006 holiday tour, she outsourced the job to such comedians as Patton Oswalt and Paul F. Tompkins.

The audience assumed the responsibilities Saturday, as Mann invited the crowd to fill the spaces between tracks with birdcalls, a running gag that humorously linked her stellar 18-song set.

Backed by her three-piece band, Mann’s adult alternative rock was a natural at Carnegie Hall’s prestigious Zankel Hall. She joked that she’d do her best to adjust to the fairly formal setting, as she had played the more casual Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y. (with its smells of “beer and bleach,” she ribbed), the previous night.[Billboard]

Pictures from the Brooklyn show, the 2nd to last on Aimee’s tour, and one day before the Long Winters’ John Roderick headlined his own show at Mercury Lounge, continue with a shot of Aimee’s setlist, below…

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John Roderick @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Aimee Mann