We were sitting at one of the comedy series shows and looking at the upcoming items in the Live at the Temple concert series, and just reading the description, without knowing anything about the artist, sounds like something I’d like, so I asked Shannon and she said sure and we bought tickets. As a note, I tried to get tickets for the tables, but several of them had a seat taken and a seat reserved for handicapped, so we couldn’t buy 2 seats at a table, leaving the handicapped seat by itself. So we ended up on the risers. For the most part, we ware on the younger side of those that attended, with a handful, much younger. It was stunningly good. Not knowing what to expect, as I did no research, and Shannon did a little.

We had dinner downstairs and headed up to the concert.

I think we were both stunned. She has an emotive and beautiful voice, and the backing band, including her husband, was quite talented. She moved between classics that she doesn’t want to be forgotten, the album they our touring on, which is based on William Blake poems and the various projects that she’s been involved in.

Of the strong performances over the course of the night, her performance of Blackbird, was fantastic (from another show).