Saw Jane Monheit at Birchmere tonight. She is awesome! Kirsten and I really enjoyed her show. Such a lovely voice! She sang for about 90 minutes, doing a lot from her latest album, “Taking a Chance on Love”, her previous albums, as well as some unrecorded songs. One of the songs was first performed live (by her) tonight; it was by a Brazilian artist, and in Portuguese (“I have no idea what the words mean, but it sounds so lovely!”)
After the show she came offstage and did a signing. She signed our ticket stubs as well as my notebook. She commented on my Moleskine notebook – “Is this a moleskine? I can’t live without mine!”. So there you go; it must be cool to carry one around :) . Had I known she’d be signing, I would have brought my cd with me! Birchmere only had a few copies of cd’s in their shop. BTW, Birchmere (in Alexandria, VA) is a great music venue. It’s sort of like a huge dinner theater – holds a lot of people, but the acoustics (and seating) is great. Good food too (try the chicken enchiladas). Get there a bit early if you want a table near the stage…
(picture from my camera phone – but better than nothing!)
