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Devon and I got to go see a concert at the Seattle Town Hall (which was a fabulous venue) which was put on by a guy named Jason Webley (here's his website ifins you're interested: http://www.jasonwebley.com/ ) wherein Amanda Palmer was a guest performer.
The concert wasn't so much a concert--though there was much fabulous music to be heard for almost four hours--it was an experience. Jason Webley's shows are famous for their quirkiness--apparently he used to have a "birth" and a "death" (his own) to begin and end his shows, and he would often take his audience wandering out of the venue somewhere else, to the location of his "death". One of my friends said that at the concert he went to, Webley led them out into the woods then just disappeared.
This was the eleventh anniversary of his performances. There were brass bands, orchestra pieces, banjaleles, steel guitars, accordions, performance art, video, a techno-hockey video reproduced live, poetry reading, a bedtime story, through it all massive balloons tossed about the auditorium. There was audience participation in almost every act: dancing, finger wiggling, tickling of the fellow concert goers, casio keyboard simulations--I'm tellin ya, this guy puts on a SHOW. And of course, Amanda was there--playing her piano. She played a brand new song that had much of the audience in tears.
It was truly a moment of moment.
The concert wasn't so much a concert--though there was much fabulous music to be heard for almost four hours--it was an experience. Jason Webley's shows are famous for their quirkiness--apparently he used to have a "birth" and a "death" (his own) to begin and end his shows, and he would often take his audience wandering out of the venue somewhere else, to the location of his "death". One of my friends said that at the concert he went to, Webley led them out into the woods then just disappeared.
This was the eleventh anniversary of his performances. There were brass bands, orchestra pieces, banjaleles, steel guitars, accordions, performance art, video, a techno-hockey video reproduced live, poetry reading, a bedtime story, through it all massive balloons tossed about the auditorium. There was audience participation in almost every act: dancing, finger wiggling, tickling of the fellow concert goers, casio keyboard simulations--I'm tellin ya, this guy puts on a SHOW. And of course, Amanda was there--playing her piano. She played a brand new song that had much of the audience in tears.
It was truly a moment of moment.