She has a way of turning a 2,000-seat venue into her living room. Relaxed, confident and funny, k.d. lang has an engaging stage presence. Then she sings, and it gets better from there. Her dusky contralto is one of the best, most expressive, instruments in adult pop. With a splendid new album, Watershed, under her belt, lang should find a little extra juice to highlight her new material. The Canadian singer/songwriter began as an acolyte of Patsy Cline (she once had a backup band called the Reclines), but over several decades she has transcended the country genre. k.d. lang w/Dustin O'Halloran, 8 p.m. Mon., March 3, $85, $49.50, $43.50, rutheckerdhall.com.
This article appears in Feb 27 – Mar 4, 2008.
