Category: Concerts
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Measuring My Life in Coffee Spoons
Today is my birthday. I woke up with a hankering to listen to “Afternoons and Coffeespoons” by Crash Test Dummies. If you’re not familiar, do yourself a favor and give it a listen! The lyrics to the (very hummable) refrain strike me as quite perfect for a birthday: Someday I’ll have a disappearing hairlineSomeday I’ll…
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Graham Nash at the Birchmere April 19, 2023
When I heard the news of David Crosby’s death last January, memories came rushing back. The music of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young formed the soundtrack of my college years. “Our House is a very very very fine house,” a song for Joni Mitchell, fed my romantic aspiration. “Teach your parents…
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Lady Gaga in Concert, DC Aug 2022
To celebrate our 38th wedding anniversary, Doug and I attended the Lady Gaga concert in Nationals Park in Washington, DC. Some 40,000 fans overflowed the ballpark on a sweltering August night. The Chromatica concert began late, at 9:00, and lasted a full 2 hours. The orchestration of video, sound and choreography was impeccable. What a…
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The National: Rocking Out at Calvin
When I attended Calvin there was no dancing allowed on campus. During the late 1970s students gathered in darkened dorm basements at covert “parties with music” to bounce rhythmically and hope no dean showed up to bust us.
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Memorable Memorial Day at Wolf Trap
An account of Memorial Day in Washington DC, at Wolf Trap, from the “before times”!
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What U2 Taught Me About Discipleship
How can I say this without sounding ridiculous? Well then, I’ll just say it. The feelings I experienced were cosmic. The music transported me to another place, a place as close to the Kingdom of God as I’ve ever been. I felt mystically connected to the 80,000 other people in the stadium, strangers all. I…
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U2 Concert
I acted like a groupie at a U2 concert and had a blast. I wrote more about the experience (here). Here’s the set list including the opening act, Florence and the Machine: