Andy Shauf in Concert (opening performance by Cassandra Jenkins)

Andy Shauf in concert
Opening performance by Cassandra Jenkins
Presented by Westerly Sound at The United in Westerly, RI
SATURDAY, APRIL 2ND | 8- 11 PM
$25 ; TICKETS AVAILABLE AT UNITEDTHEATRE.ORG

Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs unfold like short fiction: they’re densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. On his new album The Neon Skyline, he sets a familiar scene of inviting a friend for beers on the opening title track: “I said, ‘Come to the Skyline, I’ll be washing my sins away.’ He just laughed, said ‘I’ll be late, you know how I can be.'”