The Aerie
The wife and I attended YAIGC: Yet Another Indigo Girls Concert, last night. We have recently been doing quite well on the Indigo Girls fan front: a few years back I slipped us in backstage to meet Amy at a concert, and then last October we met Emily at a presentation she held with her father (for which photograph I just spent a futile hour searching). Then after their spring concert my wife and I waited by the bus and met both of them as they walked to their bus.
So aside from having them over for dinner, we've been pretty successful as fans. If by "successful" one means "obsessive and dorky."
Last night's performance was held at the Minnesota Zoo, which was a first for me. I wasn't sure what to expect - leopards leaping onto the stage during the performance? As it turned out the setting was wonderful, and for some reason the acoustics were ideal. The volume and clarity allowed us to really hear and understand the lyrics. A little breeze would have been nice: despite being out in the open air it was as hot and close as when we attended "Pirates of the Caribbean" last weekend in an un-air-conditioned theater. But we got to see herons, crows, and the stage was even visited by a bat (rather than a leopard).
The setlist is here, it was quite a lengthy concert. The two songs of which I am most tired, "Chickenman" (which I simply have never enjoyed) and "Galileo" (which is good but of which I am quite tired) were held for the encore, where they were quite tolerable.
For big Indigo Girls fans, here's a slideshow from the performance.
I updated and modified the excellent PHP Slideshow program from Zinkwazi.com to handle movies so that I could post my short clips recorded with my Olympus 2200 digital camera. More on that soon.
Posted by Albatross at July 13, 2006 2:29 PM | TrackBack