Evelyn Roper - Singer Songwriters in the Round, Gunnison Arts Center - June 27, 2014

[Gunnison, CO] Another pro – beautiful, calm and confident - respectable jeans, a sparkly sexy top toned down with a long sleeved gauzey top. She’s at the center of Gunnison’s music scene, playing solo shows, organizing musical kid events –respected – never had seen her. She’s the strong unpretentious woman who runs deep. In contrast to the whines and simpaticos that preceded her, she was raucous on her guitar (as racous as acoustic gets). She often swayed country but was so metaphorical and literate, she also reminded me of Dar Williams. Her music was full of metaphors: men as tumbleweeds. She also incorporated a lot of desert imagery, which I enjoyed as a former desert girl. She’s the rare breed who is a poet that gets things done.