Helen Reddy B.B. King Blues Club and Grill Times Square, New York March 23 and 24, 2013
Helen Reddy’s performance at B.B. King Blues Club in Manhattan, last weekend, was utterly magnificent in every way. I left the venue floating on a cloud--and that afterglow is still with me. Ms. Reddy, who in the 1970s created hit-after-hit and went on to appear in theater both on Broadway and London’s West End, has recently returned to performing after a decade’s hiatus.
Her unique voice as fresh, vibrant and warm as ever, and her confident, even hypnotic presence was that of a performer engaged in the here-and-now. Absent was any hint of those haul-out-the-old-timer nostalgia shows (the kind public television often concocts for fundraising). The audience was treated to a purveyor of pop songs, completely in possession of fine-tuned comprehensive artistry and relaxed and masterful delivery. In short, each of the eighteen...
Helen Reddy’s performance at B.B. King Blues Club in Manhattan, last weekend, was utterly magnificent in every way. I left the venue floating on a cloud--and that afterglow is still with me. Ms. Reddy, who in the 1970s created hit-after-hit and went on to appear in theater both on Broadway and London’s West End, has recently returned to performing after a decade’s hiatus.
Her unique voice as fresh, vibrant and warm as ever, and her confident, even hypnotic presence was that of a performer engaged in the here-and-now. Absent was any hint of those haul-out-the-old-timer nostalgia shows (the kind public television often concocts for fundraising). The audience was treated to a purveyor of pop songs, completely in possession of fine-tuned comprehensive artistry and relaxed and masterful delivery. In short, each of the eighteen...
- 3/31/2013
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
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