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By Kate Gilberd<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The folk rock stylings of the supergroup Boygenius, made up of headliner Julien Baker with Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, captivated the crowd at Boston\u2019s Orpheum Theatre on Thursday. <\/span><\/p>\n Each artist first performed on her own. Dacus started the show right on time with a 30-minute set, beginning with an unreleased song that featured only Dacus and her guitar without the rest of her band. The stripped-down version fit perfectly in the context of Bridgers\u2019s and Baker\u2019s powerful ballads, soon to come. From then on, Dacus and her band played several other songs from her new release <\/span>Historian<\/span><\/i> and an old favorite from her first album, filling in the gaps with easy quips to the crowd. During her closing song, \u201cNight Shift,\u201d her soaring, confrontational vocals and shredded guitar tone left the stage humming with energy heading into the next act. <\/span><\/p>\n After a break, Bridgers, looking ghostly in her long black skirt and light hair, played an extremely tight set. She was joined by her band and featured violinist Camille Faulkner. Bridgers\u2019s soft, ethereal voice, with back-up harmonies by drummer Marshall Vore and bassist Anna Butterss, calmed the room with songs from her album \u201cStranger in the Alps.\u201d The standout of her set was certainly her closer, \u201cYou Missed My Heart.\u201d The only instrumental accompaniment for this song came from keyboardist Nick White and second guitarist Harrison Whitford, who played an incredible lap steel guitar. The emotionally charged performance began with Vore and Bridgers singing shoulder-to-shoulder at center, and ended with Bridgers kneeling on the edge of the stage, looking down, as if visiting the grave of a loved one. The moment of silence that followed was just as deafening as the applause that followed Bridgers offstage. <\/span><\/p>\n Being relatively unfamiliar with Baker\u2019s work, I was unsure she could convey the kind of emotional power Bridgers had with her set. I shouldn\u2019t have worried. The soft-spoken powerhouse proved that she was headlining the show for a reason. Baker had the audience hanging on her every syllable as she and Faulkner delivered songs like \u201cSprained Ankle\u201d and \u201cEverybody Does\u201d from her 2015 album <\/span>Sprained Ankle, <\/span><\/i>then brought the emotion and range on her own with \u201cTurn Out the Lights\u201d and the heartbreaking \u201cGo Home,\u201d off of her 2017 release. Her voice was captivatingly smooth no matter the range, but revealed a hint of texture on the high notes that added an edge to her flawless performance. Baker was the most visibly emotional, and left many audience members with tears in their eyes by the conclusion of her 11-song set. I was left wanting more, and the concluding act did not disappoint. <\/span><\/p>\n Dressed in matching embroidered blazers, Boygenius finally took the stage to play through all six songs of their self-titled EP, released earlier this year. The trio\u2019s easy demeanor and effortless harmonies brought to mind famous folk girl groups like the Wailin\u2019 Jennys, but with an edge. It was as if the three had always existed in tandem. They took cues from one another with ease, and watched with quiet reverence during solo moments. The charged intensity of songs like \u201cMe & My Dog\u201d and \u201cSalt in the Wound\u201d gave way gracefully to softer moments, like those in \u201cStay Down\u201d and \u201cSouvenir.\u201d For their closer, \u201cKetchum, ID\u201d, the three women gathered around one mic and Baker\u2019s acoustic guitar to share a quiet, reflective moment with the audience. Their soft, supportive harmony closed the show perfectly: it was a culmination of every compelling moment over the course of the night. <\/span><\/p>\n Boygenius will likely be a short-lived band, as they have not announced plans to release a full album or second EP. No matter what the final outcome is for the group, though, the concert at the Orpheum felt like a special occasion\u2013the kind of night that doesn\u2019t happen very often. It isn\u2019t every day that three exceptional singer-songwriters come together to share their passion with a crowd of that size. Each member of Boygenius clearly expressed to the audience how grateful they were to be up on that stage, but witnessing their performance was truly our privilege. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Kate Gilberd The folk rock stylings of the supergroup Boygenius, made up of headliner Julien Baker with Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, captivated the crowd at Boston\u2019s Orpheum Theatre on Thursday. Each artist first performed on her own. 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