MAEVE BELL-THORNTON
By MOLLY WALLACE
The sophomore solo artist chatted with us about opening for Magic Man, her involvement with Midnight at Tufts, her Nashville roots, and her new blues project with the aforementioned Sam Cantor. And then Sam showed up, which is probably why he butts in toward the end there.
I
really enjoyed your opening for Magic Man, how’d you get that show?
MBT: I’m in Midnight at Tufts. That is a club that gets together local artists. I just joined this year and yesterday they had Magic Man perform… and I got a free t-shirt! So they needed someone to open and I had mentioned to Gabe that I had been doing this blues band thing with Sam [Cantor, bandmate], and I think he had been to the 3 Capen shows… Those are great. MBT: So they said they needed someone for free because they have a very limited budget, and they hadn’t found anyone and they were like “wait yeah you guys do stuff
right?” And we were like “yeah! Lets do it!” And I think it works better when you have a clear-set goal like that, because we’re all really busy but its like—okay, we have two weeks to do something so you get it done. That’s how it kickstarted, and since we were opening for Magic Man… we do more folksy stuff but it was like, to even it out, they probably want something a little harder… A little louder. MBT: I’ve always done really folksy stuff, as well. I had a band in high school and a band last year that were both very folksy-acoustic-guitar and I had never really played in a band with a drum set... which was just really exciting. I brought my electric guitar to college; which I didn’t last year, and I’m getting into a heavier sound… I just think
