A couple musical events
THE CURRYS at the Courthouse.
http://thecurrysmusic.com/
They were very entertaining. It turns our one of the band is the cousin of Ana, Cory's old girlfriend. Elizabeth remembered that Ana gave us his music before he hooked up with his cousin.
The three guitars were just grand. One fellow had the voice of a young Paul Simon and they did sing, "Sound of Silence." However, most of their songs were bits they had written.
The weakest part of the music is that the lyrics were often difficult to understand. Too bad. I thought the writing was very good. However, there are all new songs to the entire audience. They have to be enunciated clearly.
Part of this I blame on this need for rock groups to have these strange accents that are sort of Southern or Western. If the performers would just sing in their own voices, we could understand the lyrics and better like the song. But that is just the way it is. Everyone had to have a twang or a whine.
However, I enjoyed the concert just as I would Fado music. I had no idea often what they were singing about, but their voices as instruments along with great guitar variety, made for fine music.
What fun!
They were very entertaining. It turns our one of the band is the cousin of Ana, Cory's old girlfriend. Elizabeth remembered that Ana gave us his music before he hooked up with his cousin.
The three guitars were just grand. One fellow had the voice of a young Paul Simon and they did sing, "Sound of Silence." However, most of their songs were bits they had written.
The weakest part of the music is that the lyrics were often difficult to understand. Too bad. I thought the writing was very good. However, there are all new songs to the entire audience. They have to be enunciated clearly.
Part of this I blame on this need for rock groups to have these strange accents that are sort of Southern or Western. If the performers would just sing in their own voices, we could understand the lyrics and better like the song. But that is just the way it is. Everyone had to have a twang or a whine.
However, I enjoyed the concert just as I would Fado music. I had no idea often what they were singing about, but their voices as instruments along with great guitar variety, made for fine music.
What fun!
And the World Goes Round.
We went to see a local production of this musical review and found it delightful. I had not heard of these song writers, but this was as good as musical theater gets. Often I'm put off by musicals that try to be both drama and song. I find the music takes me out of the story. However, I have noticed that listening to the now defunct Jonathan Channel out of NY city, that I liked many songs that had been part of musicals. Here there was no drama, just song after song, and we did not need a play to comprehend the lyrics.
Also, the lyrics were crystal clear. We loved the new music of the group The Currys we saw in the Courthouse Sunday, but the lyrics were often disguised by the country accents popular in rock vocalists. This was much better.
Our seats were up front, the pace of the long show was fast and attention grabbing.
My favorite was a duet similar to this one
However, in this production it began with a song by a woman singing about losing a love, then she moved to the side of the stage and became the woman to whom an old man actor sang his lack of memory.
On the lighter side, I liked Coffee in a Cardboard Cup
And the theme song, "The World Goes Round" that promises summer and winter fall and spring held just a bit of irony in our modern world faced with extinction.
I think we are going to like going to these productions or other things offered by this Art Center. Odd we spent a whole year here in Inverness hungry for a bit of culture and not knowing about this place.
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