Performers would stop and freeze mid-song when jets flew overhead. Strange but entertaining. https://balboapark.org/arts-culture/starlight-bowl-balboa-park/

Oh, I get it...

Waaay back in ?'69 we went to Forrest Hills Tennis Stadium to hear Simon & Garfunkle. Now, they weren't as loud as The Who would be two years later 😄 in '71 so....
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They had to stop when a jet was heading to, or from La Guardia Airport also in Queens, NYC.

sang while playing music as he was lowered down into the grave. Very touching, moving. Lionel also wrote the song 'Swinging' sung by John Anderson. I miss him.

John Anderson Lyrics
Play "Swingin'"

"Swingin'"

There's a little girl in our neighborhood,
Her name is Charlotte Johnson and she's really lookin' good.
I had to go and see her, so I called her on the phone.
I walked over to her house and this was going on:

etc.

Saw John Anderson in Los Angeles opening for George Jones.

In DC. It was under the bridge. Jumps out at me

A woman playing violin in one of the plazas by the music school in Venice Italy then was joined by a classical guitarist

Oh, how lovely a small scene in Vence!
And that reminds me of (I'll put separate post).

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Might not have been too weird if there had been a crowd to fill it. The crowd size could’ve been counted in the dozens! 🤣

of which there are thousands, and thousands!!

Two black women playing viloins in the '00s. There may be black violin players in our city's orchestras, but it was the first time seeing them in the subway.

In the '90s a guy was playing a digeridoo in the turning corner of a subway staircase. I passed him heading out. I think I could still hear him a bit as I got out of the stairway on to the street; but passed by the subway grating.

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Obviously the rest (all those pipes) are in the church building!

...at the cathedral school in our diocese.
They had a 4 manual organ like that.
The first time I got to play it, I was only around 10.
I could barely reach the top manual!
And like the one pictured, there were DOZENS if stops & timbral modifiers. Everywhere I looked there was a button, knob, or lever to push/turn/move. Would take 10 years to sort through all the combinations, if it was a full time job.
Around 5,100 pipes & cost over $50k when it was installed in 1954. About $620k today!!!
The one pictured is probably in that same category.

The last place I would have expected such a world class organ.

in Victoria BC. Various musical acts, culminating with the Victoria Symphony and fireworks at the end, play throughout the day and evening on a barge in the Inner Harbour. Around 40,000 people would attend each year, was free as well. Was there 4 years running, 3 years on the BC Legislature lawn, the 4th year friends went very early to place their chairs up front and took mine. The 5th year had some health issues, so I just sat on my balcony and listened to it, as I lived only a few blocks away.

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And, yay, you could hear it when you had health issues that year.

Victoria is a magical town anyway. I'd love to see this festival.

Saw Carmen. The opera started precisely at sundown - glorious.

A couple of the best concerts I attended were at Red Rocks.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band on The River tour, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Albert King, and Bobby Blue Bland were standouts.

My mom and I saw George Carlin there in the mid-70s.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons...

grass growing inside, at night (stars, moon above), something classical.

One of the most interesting places I played was in a winterized tent in the middle of what I seem to remember was the Palais Royale in Paris. We brought "Carnevale a Parigi", and in order to enter the concert the audience had to wear a mask. You have no idea how truly weird (and strangely erotic) it was to look out from the stage (which was just a platform maybe a foot above the ground) and see an ENTIRE audience masked (-- every type of mask you could imagine --).

Wow for the masked concert event in the palace!

You're a violinist, if i remember right?

Ah, got it. Viola.

I played it in 5th grade. I really wanted the violin, but I think bc I had "sprouted up" to 5' 7" they decided to give the shorter, smaller girls the violins.

(stained glass, long gone) and see the flying buttresses ...

the architecture still makes you feel exalted.

In NYC we have The Cathedral of St John The Divine. A very hig Gothc church. It's magnificent!

I also love some of the great Mosques.
The architecture, and the geometric, and floral designs are glorious!

Did see Devo in a regular club.

Richie Haven lived in the Hood. He walked into the park with his guitar, got a milk crate, sat down, and started wailing away.

Unforgettable.

Yeah, I saw Richie a few times.

When I was in high school, I decided to learn guitar, and then found out about Lightnin' Hopkins, an old blues guitarist who had been "rediscovered" by Alan Lomax and some of the folkies of the 1960s. I learned that he would be performing at an after-hours dive in Houston's Third Ward, took my dad's car and went there alone - a white high school girl.

I never occurred to me that I might be in danger, because I was going to see Lightnin'. I walked into this tiny, smoky little neighborhood juke joint. It fell silent when I entered, and someone asked, "Miss, are you lost or in trouble?" I said "No. I came to hear Lightnin' Hopkins".

That's all it took. They pulled me up a chair at a table, and the rowdy fun resumed. It was a great night, and great people. I would have been grounded for life if my dad had ever found out.

Yes, I've heard, of him and some of the other blues players.
I'm guessing they appreciated you making your way over there see him.

Ohhh, yeah, your dad would have hit the ceiling!

Never heard of them and didn't want to pay the $5 cover charge, but figured we were already there. They blew me away and during the set, they announced they had a record deal and to look for it later on that year.

In Prague.

To Letna Park at the time!

......great acts. It's an open outdoor venue built in a natural bowl-shaped terrain where you can bring picnics and sit on blankets on the grass. Saw a bunch of shows when we lived nearby but the Orchestra was really special. Bonnie Raitt also was one of my favorites.

Close to Dupont Circle way back in the early 70s, Great dive bar and even better music.
I will never forget watching and listening to Rory Gallagher for the 1st time. He rocked my world....Damn he was sooo good....
The bar shuttered long ago....

Aretha, Isaac Hayes, Arthur Prysock and many more.

I've been there, too.

the Hollywood High School Auditorium on Sunday June 4, 1978.
The show was brilliant.

The Tikkis

at this little dance club south of Kalamazoo, Michigan called The Crazy Horse that was in the loft of an old barn.

My friend, Kathi, and I would go there a lot. It was fun to dress up in crazy outfits and dance all night! But that night I will never ever forget.

We had never heard of Alice Cooper. The word of mouth rumor was that it was gonna be Al Kooper. We just knew he played blues. Well, imagine our surprise when it was, well, the show it was, complete with Alice Cooper's now well-known makeup, a baby doll, and even a guillotine! Whoa! We were stunned. LOL

But we danced ourselves into oblivion and I have never forgotten that night! I even still have the outfit I wore (it was wild) - it was that memorable a night. This was right before Alice Cooper's first big hit song came out, "I'm Eighteen." I'm not saying I was a huge fan or anything (my younger brother was), but it was definitely not something easy to forget!

Sounds great to have gone alot, dress wild, and dance all night!

I loved going to clubs to see bands. Now most clubs back then '70s, early '80's didn't have dancing.
Then a wonderful club called Hurrahs opened neat Lincoln Center. It had performers, and also a dance floor w a DJ. Loved to dance!

years at Territory Days. I could sit on my porch and listen without the annoying crowd, or I could get a spot right in front so that I could also watch the dancers.

I like you had a choice for listening for afar, or going up to listen and view the dancers.

In the '80s I'd been to a few pow wows here in Manhattan, and once the big summer one in Queens. So, yes, I've seen some dancing, too.

Also was in South Dakota and the Black Hills for a environmental, Native America event.

Still have several of their early CD's.

I was fortunate to attend one of the Gathering of Nations powwows in Albuquerque years ago. I was sad to learn that this year was its last.

When you were in SD, were you able to see the incredible statue "Dignity: Of Earth and Sky"? She is incredible.

I was just on the Chamerlain, SD fb page, and saw that there will be a tenth anniversary celebration of "Dignity" in September.

I was in SD in '80 quite before she was created. I've seen photos - powerful & beautiful!

What a shame the Alberquerque pow wow is ending!

I stayed w my dad's work associates/friends in Alberquerque overnight on my '79 cross US trip. They took me to the Native American market.

However, I can tell you some of the more out of the ordinary places that I've played over the years.


Boats
Department Stores
Elementary/Middle/High Schools
Grocery Stores
Home for Unwed Mothers (since changed its name to an Adoption Center)
Illegal After Hours Club
Law Firm
Lesbian Biker Bar
Mental Institution/State School for the Intellectually Disabled
Presidential Library
Prisons
Retirement Homes
Swingers Club