A Fine Frenzy in Detroit - Review

So A Fine Frenzy opened for Brandi Carlile on Sunday and they were so awesome they should be on their own tour. It was a small venue at St. Andrews and I've never seen it that packed, they were sold out and they were was a great crowd for AFF. Alison Sudol is the singer and she's wonderful the songs she did were just beautiful, I wish she had played more. She was so polite and so gracious when everyone kept clapping after a few of her perfectly done songs. I so wish they would have played longer, I thought I saw an extra song on the set list but they didn't do an encore; I couldn't read the title so it might have been a song earlier played...

Alison did show up at the sales table to sign autographs. So of course, I purchased another copy of the CD. I got her to autograph it, a booklet and I got my picture taken with her (I sure wish I had a better camera than my phone with me, the lighting was pretty poor were we stood). Once again, she was so polite and pleasant with everyone, almost shy like. I hadn't realized how very beautiful she was until I got that close to her, it made me feel kind of shy at that point.

The booklet was interesting about ten 5 inch by 7 inch pages with great photos and an interview. I think they were giving them away (at least I didn't pay for the ones I grabbed for my friends and I) but they were really nice. They looked like they were from an earlier tour (maybe from some kind of press or info packet).

I've been so happy with all the 'opening acts' that I've seen lately I've been very happy with most of them and become a fan of many recently. Heck, Brandi opened for Indigo Girls when I saw them a few months ago. I would travel a ways to see AFF again! I was really surprised that Alison didn't sing a sone with Brandi (or vice-versa).

A few odd things - The manager(?) wouldn't let me take a picture when she was signing photographs, "please wait until she poses" (or something like that). I would have put it with the spot where I was talking about her signing, so that it totally was in context; but it didn't seem worth it to try an explain it.

Someone posts Twitter updates for A Fine Frenzy but they didn't do any in Detroit, which I was keeping my eyes open for (and since they didn't have a concert the next day they might have still been around).

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Brandi Carlile in Detroit - Mini Review

This past Sunday Brandi, as usual, was excellent. She just belts out some of those tunes and other times she's just kind of mellow, she did a great concert. She covered a Queen song on the piano and it was awesome; it might not have been "a" queen song, it might have been a multiple medley song since I know part of Bohemian Rhapsody ('momma, just killed a man') was in it but I think there were parts of that song not sung ('Gallileo Figaro - magnifico'); does anyone know for sure? She did the Queen song so perfect, I've got to think some of the younger crowd assumed it was a song of hers...

She talked about people traveling from Ann Arbor to see her (and vice-versa) and was excited by the response. I've driven to Chicago to see her and it was worth it! This was my third time seeing Brandi and I'll go again next chance!

Back to her music. Some of her more passionate songs just totally get inside me. It wasn't just me, you could see some were affecting other people too, I don't know exactly what it is. But a couple really got to me, especially Hallelujah at the end.

Little did I know that while I had an excellent time at the concert that it's emotional high was just that start of a roller coster ride of emotions this week...

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