Last night Rob and I went to see British singer-songwriter Richard Thompson in concert at Columbus's oldest surviving theater. It's a fabulous space, and we had good center seats. Richard played solo, on a single Lowden acoustic guitar, for over an hour and a half. It was phenomenal. His virtuoso guitar playing takes me breath away. He has a ( Read more... )

I actually ended up going to BOTH the Concrete Blonde concert AND the YSO Street Fair! Go me! We got to the Newport during the opening act, so there weren't many seating options by then. But I did manage to find a step that worked both as a place to see above the crowd and a place to sit when my back got tired. Concrete Blonde started off their ( Read more... )

I had tickets to see the Canadian synth-pop band Metric last night. I had
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The audience for the Peter Murphy Retrospective concert was mostly in their 30's and 40's (a couple even brought their kids), though there were a few who looked like they were in their 20's. I ran into a couple of friends before the show started, and they offered us places at their table. It was nice to have people to sit/dance with ( Read more... )

Saturday my troupe performed at OSU's Renaissance Festival. Our first performance was good, but not great, and I was looking forward to doing better at our second performance when the rain began and didn't let up. I wasn't even sure we would have an audience for our second performance because of the rain, but a few hardy souls (including Alex, Goat ( Read more... )