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Live at the Library with Jaimee Harris

Toledo Lucas County Public Library welcomes all to Live at the Library, a concert series featuring musical talent as they tour the country. May's performance will feature singer Jaimee Harris.

Toledo Lucas County Public Library welcomes all to Live at the Library, a free concert series featuring musical talent as they tour the country.

May's performance will feature singer/songwriter Jaimee Harris.

Jaimee Harris turned 30 during the pandemic. It’s a milestone that is a rite of passage even during normal times. But for this Texas-born singer-songwriter, it came in the midst of one of the strangest and most tumultuous periods in American history. When the world stopped during the lockdown, Harris, like many others, found herself gazing back into the past, ruminating on the nature of her hometown and family origins, and reckoning with their imprint on her. The term ‘nostalgia’ derives from the Greek words nostos (return) and algos (pain). If Harris’s Boomerang Town can be regarded as a nostalgic album, it is only nostalgic in the sense that the longing for home is a desire to return to the past and heal old wounds.

Harris’s sophomore effort, Boomerang Town marks a bold step forward for this country-folkleaning singer-songwriter. It is an arresting, ambitious song-cycle that explores the generational arc of family, the stranglehold of addiction, and the fragile ties that bind us together as Americans.

“My goal is to just write the best possible song I can write,” Harris says, “and I wanted to have ten songs that made sense together sonically. I still believe in the album format, and I wanted to lay the groundwork as a solid songwriter.” On Boomerang Town, Jaimee Harris, who was able to find her way out — unlike so many others — has accomplished all that and much more.

Food and refreshments will be available through purchases or donations to SAME Café. This performance will be held in the Atrium of the Main Library.