Arts & Events

Mary Lambert draws crowds from within and beyond Puget Sound

Mary Lambert singing live on the University of Puget Sound. From the moment that Mary Lambert’s fingers first touched the keys of her onstage piano, her bubbly demeanor vanished, replaced by one of somber tenderness.  As she played sad, soft chords, her first words were not in song, but spoken word poetry: “Where did you come from bright star?/What heaven did you leap from, dear love?” They are the opening lines of her short poem entitled “Dear One,” and it is with this quiet and vulnerable piece that she opened...