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[primroseburrows]

A bunch of live performances I wish I could have seen, erm. Live:

• U2 at Obama's inauguration concert, January, 2009:
  
  



• The Tragically Hip at the PinkPop Festival, Landgraaf, Netherlands, June 5, 1995. Guh? Guh.:
  
  



• Thomas Dolby and Natalie MacMaster, Ted Talks, Monterey, CA, 2002:
  
  
  
  This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, full stop.
  
  Basically Thomas wrote it about Natalie's ancestors who came to the New World after being forced from their home during the Clearances. Lyrics and history (and it's actual History) behind the song are at Thomas's Blog. Well worth a look.




• Nirvana, unplugged in New York, 1993:
  
  



• Neil Young with about a zillion of his countrymen, Live 8, Jul 2, 2005, Park Place, Barrie, Ontario. asdlfadshadsf:
  
  



• Elton John, BBC Studios, 1971:
  
  



• Jimmy Rankin, Savoy Theatre, Glace Bay, N.S. November 30th,2007:
  
  
  
  MARRY ME, JIMMY. MARRY ME NOW.



• Paul Simon and Miriam Makeba, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1987:
  
  



• Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1987 (same concert as above--actually, I'd like to have been at this entire concert):
  
  



• George Harrison, Concert for Bangladesh, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1971:
  
  



• Johnny Cash, San Quentin prison, January 13, 1968:
  
  
  
  
  
  ...and okay, I don't really wish I'd been at that last one, because then I'd have been a PRISON INMATE, and all. But erm. Maybe as an invisible person.

These take way too much time for one sitting, but really, try to watch some of them, because OMG.

Comments

[mcollinknight.livejournal.com]

Wow, I love that Miriam Makeba & Paul Simon song: such a random combination, but they're both so awesome! RIP Miriam Makeba, though :(

Oh man, I love Natalie MacMaster (my dad met her once; cue me being jealous for all eternity).

My goodness, I would have loved to have been at the U2 Inaug concert as well; though while I was watching it I noticed that Bono was having trouble singing, or at least it sounded a lot less effortless and flawless than normal. I was hoping it was just the cold, but man, he's been singing for a looooong time.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I saw Natalie summer before last (she was one of the Lowell Summer Music Series). I've loved her music for over ten years, but after finally, finally seeing her live, I love her a thousand times more. She's so awesome it almost hurts to listen to her play.

I tell ya, someday I'll make it to Celtic Colours (next year? I hope?). I've been to Cape Breton twice, both times in the dead of winter, and if I loved it as much as OMG I did then, how exponential will my adoration be in October? Very exponential, that's how much. :D

edited to close fecking parentheses