The Owl Acoustic lounge was packed as expected for a FLIPfest fundraiser, Friday, April 27.

 I missed Amy Nelson and Wanda Krein, but was pleased to have caught a little bit of Shaela Miller’s set, which had a little more of a rock flair with the addition of lead guitarist Jon Martin. Ryan ‘Skinny’ Dyck played bass as Tyler Bird back on the drums.

 While she has a new CD out,“Bad Ideas,” she had still newer music to share.

As usual she sang beautifully and impassioned.

 She began her set with a couple older songs including “Station” before breaking out the new material including “Hard Knock Upside the head ” and some really new material like  a new one  I think was called “Rich Girl,” before going back so some slightly older songs including “Halfway in Love.”