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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWithout their usual setup, the setlist was out the window. Instead, she took requests from the audience and paid tribute to Leonard Cohen the \u201conly way [she] knew how\u201d: by getting her guitarist, Jack Wolter, to do The Worm while violinist Holly Carpenter played \u201cHallelujah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cheekily flashing her red bloomers, CMAT radiated playful confidence. The lack of in-ear monitors meant she could barely hear herself, but the flip side of that was that she could hear the audience singing along clearly for the first time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And sing they did, Irish and Pride flags waving. I heard multiple people exclaim, \u201cShe\u2019s so fun!\u201d and at one point a group of fans started chanting, \u201cDiva! Diva! Diva!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She ended the emotional set by parting the crowd like the Red Sea, running deep into the pit to shout the chorus of her last song, \u201cStay For Something,\u201d among the people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Irish country-pop sensation CMAT\u2019s electrifying Osheaga set almost didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0As she strutted onto the stage, CMAT, aka Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, proclaimed that she and her band had been up since 4 a.m., her keyboardist had been taken out by food poisoning, and the airline had mistakenly sent all of their gear to Washington, D.C. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1519,"featured_media":163134,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[8152],"tags":[9419],"genre":[9781,7421,3199],"salle":[],"ville":[],"class_list":["post-163132","gig_review","type-gig_review","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critiques-de-concerts-en","tag-osheaga","genre-country-pop-en","genre-country-rock-en","genre-indie-pop-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n