Rebecca Muir

Unbelievably, it is already the last week of classes at Harvard. The academic pace stayed unrelenting but I got classmates out to hear live music a few times, the most glorious being last Sunday night at the Beehive Jazz bar on Tremont. It was our classmate Simon's birthday and he wanted to hear some blues. Bruce Bears Blues sounded promising - and he was fantastic. But we were bowled over by one of Canada's sweetest and most soulful vocalists, Rebecca Muir, as the surprise guest. Wow. She has that complex, full, yet nuanced sound that sears her way into your heart. She is thrilling to hear live. Watch out for this young star on the rise - she's been Boston-based because of her studies at Berklee College of Music, but she's in NYC now. And (full disclosure) she's a Nova Scotian artist with great musical cred.