Perception and performance.

[biffsbabe]

It must be very hard being a performer. I was thinking about the concert I saw the other night and it struck me that although Karla Bonoff sang like a nightinggale and you couldn't tell the live performance from the record there waw something missing. I told my daughter if felt like her aura needed a good cleaning. Either she was slightly pissy or maybe she knew the audience was mostly made up of older fans and she resigned herself to being an oldies act. She mostly sang songs from her first album and that album was 30 years ago. I'm sure she's written something in the recent past and I would've been interested to hear them but she didn't really take that chance. So she sang and she sang beautifully but without passion and with a slight disconnect because it was songs sung a million times in a hundred towns over three decades. I don't know much about her life but her songs are generally a single woman's lament. So if that's her life I guess the aura would be a little dingy after all these years.
But it reminds me about the exuberance Great Big Sea brought to their concert. I was so angry because the club posted show time at 8pm and the band didn't show until almost 11. I was so ready to go and then they started to play and they were so good and had such energy all was forgiven.
I don't care if they were getting drunk in the back or boinking teenage girls ...they infused the club with joy and it went through you and your heart just soared. Such is the power of music and passion.
I will know better about seeing them in clubs next time.

I will see a concert in Town Hall in April but that's a theater with no bar so I'm pretty sure they will be on the stage at the right time.