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Poll Question – Concert Experience?

Written by: Sarah LaDuke    Filed under: Poll Question, The Roundtable     Comments: 4    Tags

Monday marks the 42nd Anniversary of Woodstock. What is your most memorable concert-going experience?

Sarah LaDuke

Sarah LaDuke

Sarah grew up in Saranac Lake, NY where she worked part time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from SUNY Albany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the producer of The Roundtable.

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4 Comments to “Poll Question – Concert Experience?”

  • Larry Halloran August 12, 2011 at 9:54 am

    In the summer of ’69, in the two weeks following Woodstock, several bands that played at the festival came to Latham and played at the Colonie Coliseum Theater. It was the famous ‘theater in the round’. I was able to see Blood Sweat & Tears, Richie Havens, Iron Butterfly, Canned Heat and Melanie. Even more memorable was that I was able to enjoy the shows for free having hopped the fence each night. Oh, to be 17 again!

  • Ellen J. Cooper-Festa August 12, 2011 at 10:30 am

    my most memorable experience at a concert wasn’t about the music or the artist, it was about me. I had damaged my larynx in an accident about 8 months before the concert, and was going through many reconstructions in order to try and restore a singing voice, which I sorely missed having. I had seen many musical perforances before, and did not expect to be profoundly impacted in this way by this artist. Dan Fogelberg had music I had always liked, and I had performed a favorite “stars” the past myself. I had first row tickets at the old Westbury Music Fair, which had a revolving stage. He he took a seat on the edge with an acousitic after the intermission. At one point he was right in front of me and he held a note for a while. It started off clear as crystal and he rounded it off using his muscles in his larynx to create a finish that had some gutteral quality as well. I felt it in my throat, I had muscle memory as well as a profoundly beautiful listening experience. To see true talent is one thing, but when someone has training and can show it all to you in one note, it’s a beautiful experience to watch. I remembered what it was like to do that, and it brought me back for a few precious seconds. I never was able to have the total reconstruction due to paralysis of a chord and scar damage, went back many times to see if research was going to offer me a promissing chance to again attain that capacity. It was not in the cards, but the memory of having had it can never be taken away, and Dan Fogelberg gave me the feeling like I had it for a few seconds.

    oh, that and a bead of his sweat fell right by me, and that was pretty intense too….

  • Rick Kowalczyk August 12, 2011 at 11:22 am

    A few years ago at Tanglewood was my most memorable experience. I went to Film Night with my grandparents to see John Williams. We were out on the lawn and being the Star Wars geek that I am, loved the whole thing. Then, at the end, right as the orchestra was hitting the FINAL note of their encore performance from E.T. a huge shooting star went over the shed as if it were on cue. You could hear everyone that was on the lawn gasp simultaneously. The moment couldn’t have been better timed if it had been planned. It was the ultimate exclamation point on a perfect night.

  • Lori Johnson August 12, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    Many years ago as a teenager, I saw Harry Chapin in concert at a small, intimate concert hall. He played was on his own, playing an acoustic guitar and sitting on a stool in the middle of the stage. He really interacted well with the audience and told many funny stories that made me feel like we were all a big part of his life. His music of course was wonderful and I was so grateful to have had the opportunity to hear his music live.