“Giselle Woo is a sonic healer. Rhythm rattles through her bones like a lifeforce and radiates out with such intensity of passion that her performances have been known to move listeners to tears. “Or smiles,” the desert dweller points out. Woo swings between English and Spanish, both her native tongues, with such ease that to the listener it might as well be the same language. When she considers the importance of representing her cross-cultural experience as a Mexican American woman on stage, her voice begins to waver, and she pauses to blink back a few tears. If there is one underlying mission in her music, it is to show others like her — those in the Latinx community, local Coachella Valley musicians, women, young people in general — that, no matter your background, with passion and persistence, it truly is possible to reach those big stages, whatever that metaphorical “stage” might represent to them. She wants to show people that it’s cool to be Mexican and American, and that it’s OK to chase your passions with abandon; only then can we realize our dreams.” (Palm Springs Life Magazine). Soak up her sounds on Friday at 12:30pm, as she joins Sleepwalker (Kristen Gass) and Nigel Roman on the boogaloo stage Songwriter Sessions.
Website: www.gisellewooandthenightowls.com
