In one graceful moment, Kelly Izzo Shapiro drifts away from Joni Mitchell's "Little Green" and, using the same guitar tuning, seamlessly slides into the opening notes of her own song, "Don't Be Afraid."
"Joni was saying goodbye to her daughter, who she put up for adoption,” Shapiro says. “And it’s this sort of hopeful but sad message. So I have a song about saying goodbye to my daughter. And it’s a sort of hopeful but sad song as well.”
The show is “You’ve Got a Friend: The Music of Carole King and James Taylor,” presented virtually starting Feb. 6 through the Louis S. Wolk JCC of Greater Rochester. The anchor of the show is King’s album, “Tapestry” — 50 years old this month, a landmark of music history celebrated by three Rochester singer-songwriters in their 30s.