Finding
the Maryland Hall (the old Annapolis High School) was a lot easier with the sun
still out (as opposed to my fall trip to see Richard Thompson a few years back).
We arrived around 7:15, just in time to get one of the last parking spaces in
the main lot right next to the building. There was at least one other lot, and
a couple of folks directing traffic. Given that the show was a sellout, getting
out after it was over was unexpectedly painless – everyone was polite, and it
didn’t take too long to get out of the lot and then back onto MD 450. We weren’t
all that close to the front (Row Q, seats 2 and 4, on the aisle in the right-hand
section), but nevertheless had a good view. (Not surprisingly, the sound was
not as good as at Strathmore, where we had seen them a couple years back.)
Amy and
Emily were great and the crowd was enthusiastic, although when the girls played
“Power of Two” by request, the response to Emily’s invitation to sing along was
pretty tepid. They started with “Become You” and ended the main set with “Galileo”,
stopping along the way on favorites such as “Fill It Up Again”, “Wood Song”, “Get
Out the Map”, and “Shame on You” (which got much of the crowd onto its feet),
along with the less-frequently-heard “Love’s Recovery”. Amy also did “Broken
Record” from her recent solo album Goodnight
Tender. “Closer to Fine”, of course, closed out the show.
Somewhat
oddly, there were more people going in and out during the show than I’m
accustomed to at any indoor concert, much less one by the Indigo Girls. Louise
speculated that it might have been related to the small “bar” in the hallway
that was selling wine.
The
evening also featured a short opening set by “Durham poet, songwriter, bassist,
rapper and singer” Shirlette Ammons, who stuck to rapping for this engagement,
featuring a number of tracks from her album Twilight
for Gladys Bentley. The background music was decent but somewhat generic bass-heavy hip-hop. The
lyrics may have been great, but these (aging) ears were only able to pick out
the occasional word and phrase.
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