Maple Glider: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Bob Boilen, July 21, 2021 Tori Zietsch, aka Maple Glider, is in her Australian home surrounded by her bandmates and friends. Comforting landscape paintings cover the walls: Tori s first vinyl album, Melanie s 1971 album Gather Me, hangs alongside the pictures. She fingerpicks her guitar and sings Mama It s Christmas, the closing track to her debut album, To Enjoy Is the Only Thing. As she sings the words: Oh it s Christmas time again, Where is my brother, Where is my friend, Mama it s Christmas time, again, Doesn t he know I ve got ribbons to wrap him Looking at the camera s wide shot, I sense her watching bandmates and those landscape paintings morph into a warm, comforting blanket. Tori grew up steeped and trapped in a restri