- This topic has 5 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 11 years ago by
.
-
Posts
-
Mon. Aug. 13: An Intimate Duo Evening with LUCINDA WILLIAMS featuring Doug Pettibone SOLD OUT!
A great acoustic show: on at 7:45, off at 9:30–see more on timing below. No opening act.Lu on acoustic guitar for all songs.
Setlist:
1. Lake Charles (Lucinda solo)
then all songs with Doug until #19
2. World Without Tears
3. Side of the Road
4. Can’t Let Go
5. Well Well Well
6. Bitter Memory
7. Concrete & Barbed Wire
8. Over Time
9. Everything Has Changed
10. When I Look at the World
11. Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door
12. People Talkin’
13. Pineola
14. Crescent City
15. Drunken Angel
16. Changed the Locks
17. Down the Big Road Blues
18. Joy
(end main set)
19. Passionate Kisses (Lucinda solo)
20. Factory (Doug returns)
21. BlessedThe Birchmere is an interesting venue with some unique policies:
All tickets are will-call.
At 5 PM, the box office opens, and issues sequential number slips to the will-call customers. If they wish, patrons can then enter a large open room with a bar, which is not the performance room. They can sit, drink, and eat, as they wish until 6 PM.
At 6 PM, the manager calls the sequential numbers, and each person or group enters the performance room, and is allowed to find seating. All entry is seated (no standing room), and all seating is at large rectangular tables with 6 chairs, meaning some shared tables with new acquaintances. Some tables are perpendicular to the stage–other tables are parallel to the stage.
Between 6 and 7:30, the wait-staff fills drink and food orders in a very noisy environment, typical for a large restaurant.
At 7:30, the PA system announces the show will start, and everyone must remain quiet and seated for the show. The audience becomes absolutely still and quiet, and the show commences. The wait staff continue with very quiet, discrete service, if necessary. I was very pleased and amazed that this procedure works–the room was strictly quiet for the entire show.The question in this procedure is what time to arrive for the 5 PM number distribution. I arrived about 4:55, and found about 200 people in line. I guess 4:30 would have been a better choice. I still managed to get a good seat, but adjacent to the side of the stage, which meant a side view of Doug and Lucinda–but very close to the action. Of course, I expect that tomorrow folks will adjust their arrival times to gain more advantage.
what a killer show. Lucinda was in masterful form and fine voice. No start-overs! Pettibone is a virtuoso; his talents were on display with every song. for just two performers on stage it was very loud. and it was good.
regarding arrival – If you want a choice seat (nearly all the seats are good and a great sound system fills the corners of the room), it depends on how many people are in your party. If you have six or eight people you want to hold seats for, you need to be in line by three thirty at the very latest. If its just two of you you can arrive later and still score great seats. I arrived at 4:40 today, I held ticket number number thirty-nine in line (several groups in front of me had six or more people) and I still scored great seats dead center, second table back from stage.
Anyone attending tuesday’s show is in for what will likely be the best DC-area show of the year. Tonight’s show certainly was.Fine work, Paul–hope those “new acquaintances” pay off for you down the line. You might test the policy with a little dancin’ near the end of the main set, if you can squeeze geometrically between those parallel/perpendicular tables at just the right angle. Here’s wondering how much the set list can and will possibly be varied tonight, since a lot of the classic, relatively slow ones were in there last night. . . .
Man oh man; this was one hell of a music night baby. We were all dancing out the night. Every single solo that she sang were ling heaven pouring the words straight to our ears. I am damn proud to be her fan.
CORBIN GRAVELY
outlook will not load
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.