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—andmoreagain presents—Jens Lekman — Songs For Other People's Weddings Tour
w/ Marem Ladson
at Motorco Music Hall
Durham, NC
doors 7pm // show 8pm
$30 adv // $35 day of show
Tickets on sale now
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JENS LEKMAN
Jens Lekman is an accidental wedding singer. But he’s also a wedding singer for a reason. Ever since his 2004 song “If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing at Your Wedding)” he has had a side gig fielding requests from strangers to sing at their weddings. For over twenty years, he’s had a particular vantage point from which to see the role love songs can play in our lives. In 2020, he and novelist David Levithan co-conceived a novel-with-music, Songs from Other People’s Weddings. Originally this album was meant to contain the songs from the weddings in the book, but as the novel came together, Lekman began to imagine what happened between the book’s chapters. The book and the album eventually became intertwined but also found their own paths. The book remained the structure of the story, but the album sometimes snuck behind the scenes. Stories from the songs made their way into the book and vice versa. The result is an exploration of what we sing about when we sing about love -- euphoria, doubt, dislocation, tenderness, conflict, playfulness, gratitude, ingratitude, longing, belonging, questioning, answering. It’s very much about a relationship and how it’s reflected through the relationships and weddings of others, but most of all it’s a lovesong to lovesongs.
・Listen: open.spotify.com/artist/7tzI4rSFTHafjF18ZrNZWx
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MAREM LADSON
A musician born and raised in Galicia, in the northwest of Spain – a place of lush, rainy and foggy landscapes – Marem turned to music in an environment that quietly shaped her introspective style. She taught herself guitar in her bedroom and began writing songs at a young age, turning inward in search of belonging, understanding, and connection.
Her songs often arrive like fragments, written as if to hold on to what slips away. Like quiet confessions, fragile yet unflinching, her music feels less like performance and more like an act of witnessing. Over the past few years, she has toured with artists including Helado Negro, Squirrel Flower, and Nick Hakim.
Now based in Ridgewood, NY, her new single Cavity is an intimate yet cathartic meditation on how absence and unresolved trauma carve their presence into our lives. With stark beauty and haunting vulnerability, it lingers on a moment when the past resurfaces unexpectedly, leaving more questions than answers, and recognizing that moving forward sometimes means letting go of the need to fully understand.
“In Cavity I’m surrendering to the fact that there are things I’ll never have answers for. It’s a way of letting go and saying out loud what had been kept quiet for too long. Of giving shape to anger, confusion, grief — but also to resilience. It’s about reclaiming my story, and choosing not to carry the silence, the shame, the weight that was never mine to hold.”
・Listen: open.spotify.com/artist/2Fzkri1PNqc9DsXUbRrNa0
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Motorco, 723 Rigsbee Ave, Durham, NC 27701-2138, United States
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