Ingrid Michaelson
Sun., Nov. 23, 8 p.m., $20, with Newton Faulkner and David Ford, TLA, 334 South St., livenation.com.
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Your company's instituted a hiring freeze, cut overtime pay, offered buyouts and laid off 10 percent of your co-workers, so don't even think about a holiday party this year. But you still need a good time and a place to wear your nice clothes, and you're in luck. Ingrid Michaelson cordially invites you to wear your gown or tux to her show. (The singer-songwriter apparently thought the TLA looked like a ballroom on her last visit, and she's taking that observation to heart.) Given that she spent much of the past year on the road to promote Girls and Boys, whose songs popped up all over Grey's Anatomy and One Tree Hill, it's a wonder Michaelson had any time to write and record a follow-up. Well, she didn't, really. Her new album, Be OK (Cabin 24) is a hodgepodge of live tracks ("The Way I Am"), covers ("Over the Rainbow," "Can't Help Falling in Love") and leftovers. Fortunately, that doesn't mean the material is second-rate — "The Chain" is big and gorgeous; "Keep Breathing" is small and lovely. Michaelson's doing her best to make something nice in hard times, so class it up, OK?
Sun., Nov. 23, 8 p.m., $20, with Newton Faulkner and David Ford, TLA, 334 South St., livenation.com.
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