“I’m so happy to be home, I’m so happy to be in New York!” Maya Hawke says into the microphone whereas dealing with a sold-out crowd on the Music Hall of Williamsburg. “Some of you I know, some of you I don’t but you are all my New York City family.” That household contains followers which were queuing all day to catch Hawke’s homecoming present. Wearing a velvet coat and black mesh costume, she effortlessly glides into ‘Bloomed Into Blue,’ softly singing “As a babbling baby / they blessed her a bastard birth” whereas the group gently sways alongside.
Hawke’s trance-like voice booms by the venue as she dives into the following few songs. Each one has an identical melody and supply as they stream into one another. At one level within the night time, breaking apart her gradual ballads, she brings out a particular visitor. It’s not her father, Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, who occurs to be on the balcony cheering on Stranger Things star with the world’s largest smile on his face, it’s singer-songwriter Jesse Harris. He begins to strum the opening chords of ‘Generous Heart,’ a Norah Jones-eque tune with the lyrics “I have nothing to say anymore / Love is nothing / I am yours” and has the group singing alongside.
“Is anyone in high school?” asks Hawke, and roughly a fourth of the group are cheering and elevating their arms. “You guys know it sucks,” she says as she begins to introduce ‘Mermaid Bar’, a track she wrote about her adolescent expertise. As the track performs, the pit turns into a sea of glimmering lights with everybody within the entrance row beaming their flashlights and blowing cleaning soap bubbles from the bottles they dropped at the gig.
The power of the night time strikes ahead at a gradual tempo, however begins to select up throughout Hawke’s most well-known tracks, ‘Thérèse’ and ‘Sweet Tooth’. Fans go wild singing each songs phrase for phrase, reciting lyrics “Bleeding, bringing in a new year’s mess” and “I’m grateful for everything you put me through / It’s the only reason I’m any good to talk to.”
She walks off stage and the booming chants of her identify convey her, her band and Jesse Harris again for an encore. They play Hawke’s first-ever single ‘To Love A Boy’ and the room is screaming the track again to her. To wrap up the homecoming present, a canopy of Florida Georgia Line’s ‘Dirt’ is sung after Hawke’s apology for deciding to finish on “a song you may hate but we love to play.” Pink furry cowboy hat on, she has a blast on stage tearing it up earlier than heading again into the town she calls house.
Maya Hawke performed:
‘Backup Plan’
‘Bloomed Into Blue’
‘Hiatus’
‘Crazy Kid’
‘Luna Moth’
‘Into My Arms’ (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds cowl)
‘Generous Heart'(with Jesse Harris)
‘By Myself’
‘Mermaid Bar’
‘Missing Out’
‘I Wanna Be Sedated'(Ramones cover)
‘South Elroy’
‘Thérèse’
‘Freezing’
‘Sweet Tooth’
‘Dirt’ (Florida Georgia Line cowl)