Started at 8 PM – nearly was late; had issues with finding a parking spot and then with the ticket – and went on until about 10:20 or so. They had a kid called Gabriela Bee open, who is a good kid and a good singer and who has the professional acumen to keep her song intros down below ten seconds*. That was about a half hour, and then they did a charity pitch for sponsoring kids in African communities. Simultaneously nice, and relentless.
The main Walk Off the Earth concert itself was also great fun. WOtE puts on a good multimedia show, not to mention online. At one point I was doing a tweet of them live-Instagraming their own show, and it was only later that I realized that I should have linked to that Tweet on Facebook or something. Or, well, here. Anyway, they’re good musicians and performers, and it was the oddest thing: I didn’t know a single person in that audience, but I didn’t once feel like I was there by myself**.
If you haven’t yet: check them out.
Moe Lane
*This is so totally a skill that people who perform have to learn. In the SCA I’ve sat through any number of people who are scared to perform their piece, and react by giving us a five minute oration about the poem / song / whatever. NO. Get up, give its name, mention if it’s a group participation number, and get your damned bard on.
**Not so much an older crowd than I expected as it was a more varied crowd. A bunch of people brought kids. WotE concerts are family-friendly, by the way.
Mr. Murphy says there will be time for filibustering later. Don’t abuse the audience’s patience.
Exactly.