Stephen Thompson | July 24, 2024 There’s always been a disconnect between Leslie Feist’s music — soothing, thoughtful, deliberately crafted — and her warm, wryly funny personality. We got to witness both in her long-awaited Tiny Desk debut, which finds her showcasing new and old material amid self-effacing commentary on the pandemic, public speaking and her strange moment of reality-TV fame. “The great joke that will always remain about [her song ‘Hiding Out in the Open’] is that we ended up singing it to contestants on The Bachelor — where true love rules all, of course,” Feist said between songs. “So singing truisms about eternal love to youth on a game show changed the context forever.” Performing two songs from last year’s wonderful Multitudes (“In Lightning” and “Hiding Out in the Open”) and two songs from 2011’s Metals (“Caught a Long Wind” and “The Bad in Each Other”), Feist was joined by a group of players and singers who’ve each performed notable work in their own right: Keyboardist Rose Droll is a terrific solo singer-songwriter, drummer Andrew Barr plays in The Slip and The Barr Brothers, bassist Todd Dahlhoff often plays and records with Devendra Banhart and Meshell Ndegeocello, and multi-instrumentalist Amir Yaghmai is a member of The Voidz. Together, though, they sound like one impeccable organism, with Feist herself as its bold, unfailingly kind beating heart. SET LIST “In Lightning” “Caught a Long Wind” “Hiding Out in the Open” “The Bad in Each Other” MUSICIANS Leslie Feist: lead vocals, guitar Amir Yaghmai: violin, guitar, vocals Todd Dahlhoff: bass, vocals, musical direction Andrew Barr: drums Rose Droll: keys, piano, vocals TINY DESK TEAM Producer: Stephen Thompson Director: Joshua Bryant Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault Editor: Kara Frame Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Frame, Zayrha Rodriguez Audio Engineer: Hannah Gluvna Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer Photographer: Michael Zamora Tiny Desk Team: Hazel Cills, Maia Stern Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins

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