Last night I went with Tori to see Sara Bareilles in concert at Blue Hill Tent on the seaport here in Boston.
I can to know of her work when I was watching So You Think You Can Dance and fell in love with this piece along with the song that played with it...
http://youtu.be/dQumAKlCJUY
Bareilles was great in concert. She has an amazing range and sang her ass off the entire night. She was really entertaining and the audience was too. In the video below, you can see a couple a good distance in front of us (and a very good distance from the stage) waving. They waved on and off through the entire show. In this video, it really just shows them concert waving with the music. It doesn't appropriately show their geniune waving to Sara all night long like she was a neighbor down the street (with the exception of an occassional raising of a glass by the guy when Sara said something worthy of a cheers!) They would stop when it got dark, and start up again once it got bright out, as if they thought Who knows, maybe Sara will see us and ask us to come on stage with her. Or at least maybe wave back?
Hats off to them for their tenacity!
This video is a clip of a very cool call and response she did after splitting the audience.
When the show started everyone stood, but as it went on and the music calmed a bit, most people sat back down for a time. The section I was in was trying to sit, but two seats in front of us were two couples still standing. One young couple, all snuggly wuggly, and another older couple, the man wearing a western-type shirt. After a while, the woman next to me said "Mr. Austin Texas t-shirt needs to sit down" and then she stood up and leeeeeeaned over and tapped him on the shoulder, "We can't see her and everyone behind you is sitting".
As he sat (and the snuggy wuggly couple next to him did too) my neighbor said to me "What can I say, I'm almost forty and I've lost my filter".
Oh, how I do know what you mean, neighbor.
She later offered Tori and I some wine because she and her friend wanted another carafe but knew they wouldn't drink it all themselves. As she got up to go get their second round, she said "I'll get four cups!" She returned disappointed that the stalls had closed but I though it was so nice that she offered.
It helped me feel better about people and the world.
Bareilles talked about her music and what the inspiration was behind some of her songs. One some, Brave, was written when she had a friend who was struggling to come out as an adult. But last night, she held a piece of paper in her hand and talked about how a woman named Nicole was in the audience and wanted Sara to know that her young son died in a car crash recently and that Brave had become an anthem for her to keep moving forward. "So, this is for Liam and Nicole" Bareilles said as she began to sing, and projected on the wall behind her was a video of people dancing and singing along to Brave in various states of joy and illness, clearly showing it's uplifting abilities to some.
It was really moving.
Before Brave though, she sang King of Anything, which is another favorite of mine. Below, she split the audience in two and created a call-and-response situation. Pretty neat.
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