Your last concert was to see who and when?

I saw David Crosby last night in Portland (OR) at the Aladdin Theater, an old venue with about 600 seats. He was in great form, had a killer band, and there was great interplay with the audience. Go see him if you're a fan of his music and have any opportunity to do so. He's still fired up about music and about making the world a better place.

My daughter and son-in-law invited me to go to see a show tonight. It was Emerson Hart of Tonic, Vertical Horizon, & Sister Hazel & The BB&T Ballpark in Winston-Salem. Emerson played a solo acoustic show that I really enjoyed. He has a great voice. VH wasn't my favorite type of music. I was really impressed with SH though. They did great covers of "Even the Losers" & "Hotel California".

A husband-and-wife classical piano four hands duo at Hilo College Music Auditorium in Hilo HI, a couple days ago.  They sat at a well-used, battleship-sized Steinway.  The hall was only about a quarter full, and me and the wife had tenth-row seats a bit to the right on the soundboard side.  The sound was very midrangey compared to the sound I get when I sit at my century-old Mason-Hamlin upright but still convincingly beautiful.  Naturally, the duo were so much better than me it was a sick joke.  The Schubert, especially, was a full-on treat.

The Linda Ronstadt experience last weekend at Roy's Hall in Blairstown NJ. Anyone near the Delaware Water Gap ought to catch a show at this venue. Totally old school vibe--the owners are great, the sound is phenomenal (one of the owners does pro sound for a living), the craft beer is cheap, there are only about 100 seats, and the crowd is always appreciative and enthusiastic. Tristan McIntosh has a voice that gets pretty darn close to Linda's and her band is very tight and accomplished. If you dig vintage Linda you will love this one!

Los Lobos last week.  Had seats front row center in a relatively small venue, the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Olympia.  They played a set of traditional Mexican songs using a variety of stringed instruments that I was not familiar with and then shifted to an electric set.  They weren't showy, more workmanlike, but you could tell they were enjoying what they were doing and the music they made was wonderful.