Expect a Feisty show

By The Daily Progress Staff

Published: April 24, 2008

4, 3, 2, 1 — count down to some concert fun.
Feist will be performing 7 p.m. Saturday at the Charlottesville Pavilion. Hayden also will perform.
Leslie Feist, from Alberta, Canada, is a Juno Award winner and Grammy Award nominee who reached a new national audience when her song “1234’’ was featured in a television commercial for the iPod nano. The song is on “The Reminder,’’ her third solo album.
Earlier this month, she led the Juno winners with five trophies, including album of the year for “The Reminder’’ and single of the year for “1234.’’
Fans can expect Feist’s show to cover her wide-ranging musical interests. The singer-songwriter’s sound combines elements of folk, jazz, indie rock and bossa nova, and a check of her MySpace page shows the Kinks, Etta James, Marvin Gaye in her list of influences.
And if you can’t get “1234” out of your head yet, just stop fighting it — head to YouTube.com and play the video again.
On her Web site, http://www.listentofeist.com, she mentions that recording “1234’’ with the Muppets for
“Sesame Street’’ was “the best day of her life.’’ Fans will want to keep an eye out for the program.
In the meantime, television fans won’t have to wait long to see her. Feist will appear on “The Colbert Report’’ on Monday and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien’’ on Wednesday.
Her tour will head across the pond to in mid-May, with dates in Scotland, England, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Portugal
A fellow Canadian will open her show.
Toronto-based Hayden began his folk-rock music career recording cassettes in the early 1990s. His latest recording is “In Field and Town.’’ His previous releases include “Elk-Lake Serenade,’’ “Skyscraper National Park,’’ “The Closer I Get’’ and “Everything I Long For.’’
Tickets are $25. For details or tickets, visit http://www.charlottesvillepavilion.com or call (877) CPAV-TIX.