Minda Lacy coming to the Pearl

April 24, 2023

The Historic Pearl Theater is pleased to welcome Minda Lacy to the stage from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 24. Minda is a Pacific Northwest singer songwriter who toys with the balancing act of silliness and seriousness, and often approaches topics like mortality and suffering from a place of light hearted wit. She creates from a genuine place of curiosity about the minds of the people she loves, and the mysteries of the universe.

With this curiosity she attempts to weave a thread of poignant simplicity through the impermanent, the devastating, the hilarious and the beautiful things about the ways that we are, the things that we do and the places we exist, whether we exist there for years or seconds.

Minda is a lyrically driven singer songwriter originally from the high desert town Silver City in southwest New Mexico. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where she is immersed in the unique and rich music scene of the moist Pacific Northwest city. Minda likes the word moist more than most people, but has yet to use the word in a song.

Ever since she was a kid, she’s been exploring the possibilities of what a guitar can do and has always approached the instrument from a place of exploration and play. From this intrinsic sense of musical motivation she has ventured from folk picking to blue grass, to spacey electric solos, to soft simple strums.

She creates from a genuine place of curiosity about the minds of the people she loves, and the mysteries of the universe. With this curiosity she attempts to weave a thread of poignant simplicity through the impermanent, the devastating, the hilarious, and the beautiful things about the ways that we are, the things that we do, and the places we exist, whether we exist there for years or seconds.

Minda has a preoccupation with time, death and bugs. She toys with the balancing act of silliness and seriousness and often approaches topics like mortality and suffering from a place of light-hearted wit. You are sometimes left with a sense of optimism about the prospect of your inevitable demise.

When listening to her music, you might find a warm playful comfort, like the sensation of a yet-to-rise giggle in your chest, at the prospect of your future dead body being decomposed by worms. This future dead you will turn into other things as part of this constant state of birthing and withering that is manifested in all facets of the universe. Minda may spend too much time thinking about time.

She is trapped in a perpetual paradox that she periodically digs herself out of through song writing.

If you’d like to embark on the musical meanderings Minda Lacy has to offer, or support her in her endeavors, you can listen to her two EPs, "Owl Faces" and "Worms," and her new first album, "Lonliest Bug,"on her website, www.mindalacy.com.

Online tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students. Doors and the Pearl Cafe, 7160 Ash Street, Bonners Ferry, open at 6:30 p.m. To learn more, call (208) 610-2846.