Madi Diaz
with Paula Valstein and Seth Glier
Tuesday, November 11 • Show 8pm | Upstairs Live
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Pennsylvania native and Boston transplant Madi Diaz may be best known for her prominent role in “Rock School,” but she’s now poised to breakthrough with her solo career. Skin and Bone, Diaz’s début solo album, is filled with songs rich in precocious wisdom, unassuming poetry, and melodic sophistication. Without paying direct homage to a particular time or place, the record evokes the locations of Diaz’s youth: the wide-open spaces of the Amish countryside, the unsettling thrills and daunting possibilities of Philly’s urban jungle - and the longing and loneliness common to both. Diaz’s powerful voice, both uniquely engaging and steeped in rock tradition, calls to mind such icons of Americana as Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow, and Patty Griffin.

Check out Madi Diaz playing at the 2008 XPN Festival.