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Take my hand and my/heart and soul

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I saw Ed Sheeran last week at the Hollywood Bowl with Megan and Monica and Monica’s sister Nikki and I have to say it was one of the best shows I’ve been to in a while. I love going to shows where I know every song, where the performer has an amazing energy, and where I can sing along with no qualms.

Ed performed solo, using a loop pedal set-up, which was amazing. He is truly a talented musician through and through, and his energy carried the entire Hollywood Bowl despite being a Wednesday and being 90 degrees out.

I don’t even care that I was surrounded by teenagers who are in love with the pop artist, because he’s just so good and because I think being embarrassed about the music you like is dumb. If it makes you shake your hips, it’s the right stuff, and what’s so wrong with that?

I love the Hollywood Bowl because I love being outside listening to live music – there is just nothing like it. Concert season is ramping up, again, and tonight we’re headed back to the Bowl to see Back to the Future with a live orchestra.

But back to Ed. He was amazing, funny, and just was having so much fun it was crazy. His mashups were just amazing, too. Our song for the wedding was Thinking Out Loud, and all his songs off of X really make me happy deep in my soul.

I’ve made a Spotify list for y’all so you can listen to the set list.

Next up, Needtobreathe in a couple weeks – another show I cannot wait for.
Happy Tuesday, folks.

been gone for miles but heart still driving

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Last night Ryan and I saw Needtobreathe at the Wiltern. This is one of the first concerts were I realized…we’re old…er. We stood in the back to see the whole band. We discussed how happy we were that the band hadn’t gotten so large that they outgrow great venues like the Wiltern. We hoped they’d play the older stuff, and were ecstatic when they did. We did show our true colors when they went on to their second encore and I scoffed at all those that had left before the first one, when they came out to play The Heart and The Outsiders.

I love seeing shows with Ryan because he loves the bands just as much as I do. When I moved to LA, I was worried that the bands I liked wouldn’t come to LA…that they’d stay up in Boston in places like the Roxy and I’d lose out on my mildly famous band loves that had one really big hits in the mid-2000s and still tour but no one knows that they still tour, and I prefer it that way.

But I moved to LA and found Ryan, and Paul, and then Traci moved here, and I got Corelyn and can con her into most shows, too. And there is the Wiltern, and El Rey Theatre, and the Fonda Theater. I am thankful the music scene in LA, because it’s one of those things that I really, really enjoying seeing live – and Needtobreathe is one of the best live shows, hands down.

Because you mostly weren’t there last night, I’ll leave you with one of the best live songs that Needtobreathe does…and I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

 

everyone has a tiny whitney houston inside of them.

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It’s concert season, around these parts. Last week, I went with C and T to see Hanson, where I was not disappointed by great tunes, lots of old songs to groove too, and an usually comfortable venue AND crowd. This was one of the best Hanson shows I’ve been to (and I’ve been to six or seven.)

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Then this past week, I got to see Matt Nathanson, who is always a delight in concert, moving his hips and making us clap, asking us to judge people around us who aren’t singing along.

Matt posits that there is a tiny Whitney Houston in everyone, and tiny Whitney needs to DANCE, so we sang “Dance with Somebody” and generally bopped around the floor of the Wiltern, singing as loud as we could and waving our heads around. This was hands down the best time I’ve seen Matt (this was the fourth time) because he has so many new fun songs, and “Modern Love” as an album really just screams “I AM A BLAST SING ME.”

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I love concert season, because it means I get to get dressed up, go to a venue, sing and dance around and feel like I’m sixteen again at the Verve Pipe concert my Dad shuttled us to in Detroit circa 2002.

Up next, I’m hoping to see 3eb in December, and we’re going to Radio Lab Live in November, which while not a concert is still a live event that I can’t wait to be a part of.

Here’s to fall, concerts, live music, and tiny Whitney.

and we disappeared into the groove

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Tonight is our first concert night of the summer. I am thrilled to be going with Traci, one of my bests from my study abroad in 2006. (Pause for 5 years. Wow.)

This is us circa 2007, on our way to Marc Broussard’s concert in Boston, July 16, 2007. Ticket cost? $18.

This is Traci and I at Chilton (Greystone Mansion) recreating one of our favorite Gilmore Girls scenes.

Not to be confused with the episode with the first and only traffic light in Stars Hollow.

But I digress. The point is, I like Traci a whole lot, and I like Marc Broussard a whole lot, too. And I couldn’t be more excited to kick off the concert summer with them. Ticket cost? $30. Marc, you’re moving up in the world. I am glad you’re still around four years later, and running strong.