By Mariel Tam
On the heels of her last show here, Los Angeles musician Chloe Day returns to Denton to play a solo set at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Jupiter House in a benefit for V-Day. The singersongwriter, who played a set at the coffee shop in late November, plays folk filtered through pop radio's less acoustic, more electric sensibilities, as demonstrated on her album "Pixie Runaway."
Day first learned to play and write songs after picking up a guitar in a Tijuana shop, and she has some lilting folky numbers like "With You With Me," in which she admits "Mainstream music has long escaped me." But her breathy, girlish vocals and some electronic tweaking enhance both the eerie feeling on darker songs, like one about a boogie man ("Man in My Bedroom Corner"), and the flirt factor on her saucier material ("Hey sweet sugar/Gimme a lolly lolly, I need it from you").
The show is free, but donations and half of Day's CD sales will go toward V-Day, which raises money and awareness for female victims of violence around the world. V-Day's main fundraiser is Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues, which is presented locally each February by the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at the University of North Texas.