With guitar (and later banjo) perched awkwardly over her growing baby bump, Laura Veirs ponders aloud the logistics of embarking on a two month international tour three months from her due date. "If I give birth in Denmark, will the baby be Danish?" she wonders. "I like that place...". The bun stays in the oven tonight, but there's a familial atmosphere onstage regardless: slight solo support sets from two of Veirs' band (Nelson Kempf of The Old Believers and Eric Anderson of Cataldo) underwhelm, but their relaxed bonhomie emphasises the quartet's tight-knit dynamic. With their ranks completed by long-term collaborator Alex Guy on violin, Veirs and co. sweep through a set foregrounding the recently released July Flame, though it's a haunting rendition of Rapture in the encore that prompts the biggest shivers and loudest cheers. There'll be tears in Amsterdam come March should junior emerge early, that's for sure.
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