So, we hit the Children of the Revolution concert over the weekend at the Broadway Performance Hall. Seemed like a pretty odd venue for music that you start tapping your feet to, and end up shaking your booty to. Nevertheless, it was pretty fun. They performed several of their standards - Kalimera (love it! I remember hearing it in Greece a few years ago, was really exciting to "recognize" what seemed like a local song), Angels in Bolivia, Liberation, Jonathan ... The guest performer - Keiko had a really guttural (ala Gipsy Kings) voice - hearing this petite japanese woman with this baritone voice was quite a surprise! Encarna performed somed fabulous flamenco, Geoffrey was amazing, truly amazing! Like always, they ended with Eleftheria - it was quite amusing to see droves of folks from the audience climb onto the stage and start jumping around!
One thing we noticed (again) - we seem to enjoy COTR's non-english songs the most. And it seems like this has something to do with the lyrics. Most of their english songs seem to be almost halting and stilted, devoid of the flow that the spanish and greek songs seem to possess. Given how much energy and talent seems to live in this band, it would be pretty cool if they could come up with more captivating lyrics that we could comprehend.
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