First up was a short very enjoyable set from classical guitarist Leonard Grigoryan. Good enough to snaffle a CD.
k.d. lang was on shortly after and straight into a track by track performance of Ingenue, the 1992 album that made her a global star and gay icon. The band comprised of a superb pianist/hammond organ player, Daniel Clarke, an excellent musical bassist, David Piltch, a delightful rhythm guitarist who occasionally picked out some intricate solo notes, Grecco Burrato, and Rich Hinman on Pedal Steel and Lead Guitar, Andrew Borger on drums and backing vocalists, Moorea Masa and Tahirah Memory.
Of course the singing was superb, the band was great particularly the three I mentioned favourably and the songs are pretty classic unrequited-love songs. I particularly like 'The mind of love', 'Wash me clean', 'still thrives this love', 'Outside myself' and naturally 'Constant Craving'. I noted however the the piano was especially inspired on 'Season of Hollow Soul' and 'Tears of love's Recall' and in truth the whole performance was great from start to finish. After that k.d. did a couple of tracks the second of which was a highlight called 'I dream of Spring' before hitting three 'canadian' covers , a Joni Mitchell track followed by an extraordinary version of 'Helpless', her emotion packed singing resonating perfectly with one of my all-time favourite songs. That was a moment. She followed it with 'Hallelujah' - a more overtly expressive version than Leonard Cohen's - to say the least. The encore was a couple of her tracks I didn't know and that was it - short and very very sweet.
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