Plus, it makes an interesting mental exercise.
Concerts I’ve attended, in reverse order:
Carbon Leaf/Clumsy Lovers (Martyrs, Chicago, IL)
Milwaukee Irishfest (The Sandcarvers/Slainte Mheath/Seven Nations/others)
Brother/Seven Nations (Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn, IL)
The Push Stars/Great Big Sea (Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, NC)
Carbon Leaf (acoustic) (Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, NC)
Carbon Leaf/Great Big Sea (Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, NC)
Carbon Leaf (Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, NC)
Carbon Leaf (The Pour House, Raleigh, NC)
Carla Ulbrich (Six String Cafe, Cary, NC)
Lula’s Birthmark (Six String Cafe, Cary, NC)
David Wilcox/Lula’s Birthmark (Six String Cafe, Cary, NC)
Duran Duran (Alltel Pavillion, Raleigh, NC)
Milwaukee Irishfest (Seven Nations/Natalie McMaster)
Moxy Fruvous (Martyrs, Chicago, IL)
Lilith Fair (Alltel Pavillion, Raleigh, NC)
Indigo Girls (Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC)
Lilith Fair (Alltel Pavillion, Raleigh, NC)
Bill Morrissey (Winston Salem, NC)
Pansy Division (Lizard and Snake Cafe, Chapel Hill, NC)
Mike Cross (Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA)
Rare Air/Dirty Dozen Brass Band/Brave Combo (Belle Chere Festival, Asheville, NC)
Christine Lavin (Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA)
Brian McNeill (Charlotte, NC)
Dougie MacLean (Charlotte, NC)
The Tannahill Weavers (Charlotte, NC)
Dougie MacLean/Gordon Duncan/Hamish Moore (Charlotte, NC)
Rare Air (Black Mountain, NC)
Nightnoise (Tillman Hall, Clemson, Univ., Clemson, SC)
Mike Cross (Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA)
The Rolling Stones/Living Colour (Death Valley, Clemson, SC)
Drivin’ ‘n’ Cryin’ (NG Armory, Clemson, SC)
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Tillman Hall, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC)
Altan (A church I forget the name of, Atlanta, GA)
Uncle Green (Clemson University, Clemson, SC)
Sting (Littlejohn Coliseum, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC)
Liz Story/Mike Marshal & Daryl Anger (Tillman Hall, Clemson, Univ., Clemson, SC)
Petra (Greenville Auditorium, Greenville, SC)
Petra (Spartanburg Auditorium, Spartanburg, SC)
Edit @ 5:15 PM CST
I forgot a few 🙂
Merlefest (Wilkesboro, NC – Mark O’Connor/Cherish the Ladies/Kukuruza)
Musikfest (Bethlehem, PA – Cherish the Ladies)
Beausoleil (New Orleans, LA)
Woodenhead (Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA)
Song Dogs (Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA)
Red Rockers (Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA)
Bruce Hornsby and the Range (Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA)
Andreas Vollenweider (Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA)
Harry Connick, Jr. (Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA)
Wow – That’s a lot more than I expected. I think that’s most of them, though I might have left out a few. There’s a lot of really good memories there. And all I’m saying about the last two is that it was over 20 years ago. Eek. Just eek.
Petra? Petra??!?
Whatever possessed you?
I think I’ve finally got them off my internal playlist. Part of a previous life.
As you say, part of a previous life. I was in high school, thinkin’ I was straight, all my friends were Southern Baptist…
Yeesh. That seems like eons ago.
Petra ‘rocked’
‘scuse the pun.
Wow, Push Stars. Good call. Are they as good live as they are on their albums?
Absolutely freakin’ amazing. I picked up “Paint the Town” after seeing them and I was really impressed by the album. I really need to get more of their albums.
The highlight of that concert was a duet between Chris Trapper of The Push Stars and Sean McCann of Great Big Sea of the original version of “Sea of No Cares” (which Trapper co-wrote with McCann and Alan Doyle). Just them and their guitars – it was a slower, more medititive version of the song, and worth the price of admission all on its own.
Ok, we established that we were in New Orleans at different times, right?
Because I saw Bruce Hornsby at Tulane, too. 🙂
That would have been, um, 1987, I would guess.