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Po' Girl

Po'Girl started innocently enough back in 2002 when Allie and Trish, then flophouse roommates in East Vancouver, formed a duo. Their sole intent: singing "creaky old jazz songs." Two years later, the duo found they had become, among other things, a five-piece band of multi-instrumentalists. Signed to Nettwerk Records (their first album Vagabond Lullabies came out in 2004), these folk festival darlings soon were headlining venues of enviable size and sharing stages with the likes of David Byrne, Richie Havens, Ani DiFranco, Michael Franti, Utah Philips and Penny Lang.

Home to You, Po'Girl's new record has captured the breezy, summer night feeling that their live show evokes. And thematically, it seems that the last two years of solid touring have had an effect. Most of the new material is about travel, longing and the notion of "home." All self-confessed former "teen-age runaways," it appears that Po'Girl has found their new "home"âtogether, driving down a winding road in Shaggy the Love Van. The songs have become gorgeous documentations of this feeling.