august 24

We don't know where Suzanne Vega is on the rock 'n' roll curve. Probably at the settling in to moderate fame point. We remember seeing her at Passim's when she was just past being a kid and hanging with her at a friend's house later, just as her first album was coming out. Star in the making? Yes. Personable and shy. That, too. A lot of folk-singers have come and gone in the interim and Vega, too, has gone through many, many changes (she was once married to producer Mitchell Froom) including an electronic phrase we really liked. Vega's got two $35 shows at 7:30 and 10 p.m. at the Regattabar with bassist Mike Visceglia. Says Vega: "The idea that I'm a fragile waif by the wayside … when anyone listens to the range of subject matter and style. There is soft and hard, sexy and abrasive, traditional and experimental. My voice is very simple and because of that it fits into different atmospheres, can take on what people might not expect.''

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