Friday night I went to see Girlyman in concert at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. The trio of super-cute pop-folksters (they describe themselves as "delicious acoustic harmony-driven gender pop" are currently on tour promoting their third album, Joyful Sign, which was released last month. (The equally cute Chris Pureka opened for them.) Here's Girlyman signing CDs after the show:

That's Nate Borofsky on the left, Doris Muramatsu in the middle and Ty Greenstein on the right. Nate, as one of my friends said on Friday night, is a total manbian. ("He's so cute I just want to hold him down and feed him candy!" said another of my friends.) Doris plays the mandolin, the guitar and the banjo, in a Girlyman-inflected style of bluegrass that she refers to as "girlygrass." (How often do you get to see a cute Japanese-American girl playing the banjo, I ask you?) Ty handles the percussion and the guitar, and I think I saw her pick up the mandolin Friday night, too (and she makes the girls whistle). … continue reading