Revisiting the ‘Quarantunes’ of Kristen Lundberg

Lo-fi punk rock performance art with violins.

Photo by Dayton Rains

Kristen Lundberg is not a prop comic.

While the violin seems like a prop — and in any other act it would be one — its purpose is to underscore Lundberg’s jokes, bringing an emotional weight to her words and priming the audience to laugh. The violin is anything but a prop: it’s a…