Ahhhhh!!! Another amazing Ani show that I now have to file away in my memory. She was wonderful, exciting, gorgeous, well-spoken, etc., etc., etc. Of course she was. Buddy Wakefield opened. I have seen him at past shows as well; he's on her label. He is such a superb performer though. I bought a CD of his a couple years ago and it is great, but nothing compares to seeing him, so large and commanding, moving and shaking on stage when he speaks like the words are just the sound that his instrument makes.
And then Ani. I am amazed every time I see her in the flesh of how physically tiny she is. 5'almost nothin''. Because she is nowhere near that size in her music. Her messages, her emotions, her melodies have the ability to take over; to reach so much farther and higher and stronger than her very petite stature lets on. She played so many new songs and I loved every one of them. She hilariously completely forgot a chord of a song after playing the whole intro, and then decided to fill in the space with a different chord that worked well enough but was not actually correct. Also, she played an old folk song that she covered recently for Pete Seeger's birthday celebration. She modernized it slightly and politicized it beautifully, no surprise there. I hope I have hundreds more opportunities to see that woman perform.
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