Music That Moves You: Are you traveling anywhere this summer to see a concert?
 

I was lucky enough to see Tom Petty and Steve Winwood last night at Madison Square Garden. It was incredibly thrilling--the kind of show that I would have traveled from far away to see (like many of the other concert goers there).

Just curious to hear about anyone else's summer concert plans--close to home or farther away.

After last night, I'm considering heading out to San Francisco for the Outside Lands Festival.
http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/artists/index.php

Not really to see a concert, but to participate in a Dobro workshop (for acoustic lap steel guitar players) at Centrum in Washington.
http://www.centrum.org/slide/dobro-intensive.html

If you're going to plan on coming to San Francisco, consider attending the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, to be held October 5-8 in Golden Gate Park. That's typically a time of fine weather, and the lineup is one of the best for American folk music of all types (country, blues, bluegrass, folk, etc.). Best of all, it's FREE, financed by the millionaire Warren Hellman.
http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/

Glad you had a good time Katie.

THere is another thread about how good the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss show is.
They are playing around the country.

I watched some of their duets on Youtube and they are great together.

I was suppose to see Tom Petty in Boston last Friday night but had to do something else instead. Gave the tickets to my sister. She loved, loved, loved seeing Tom Petty and Steve Winwood. She said the concert was great!

what a great thread to start!
Well, I'm traveling to see:
-Pearl Jam in one week
-Counting Crows in August
-Rascal Flatts/Taylor Swift in September
-Ron White (comedian) in November

*I'm 23, love music...been to about 30 or 40 concerts, from Boston, to Montreal, to Hartford, to Albany, to places in Vermont. If I could, I'd go to the folk festival in Newport, RI...Jimmy Buffet is there...it's played right on the ocean at Fort Adams...amazing scenery/view

Great thread, Katie!

In past years, I have traveled to Tampa, Atlanta, and Boston to see Dave Matthews Band (and to have extended girls' weekends), but this year, I am staying home, and will see them play in West Palm Beach.

It's a lovely amphitheater, but it sure gets hot and rainy. I think I have been rained on every time I have seen a show there.

Enjoy your summer tours, everyone! ((8)) ((B)) ((H))

Going to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Gorge on August 16th (after seeing them here in Calgary on the 11th). Saw Mudcrutch in San Francisco in April. Woo Hoo Tom!

I "travel" just a few miles here in Manhattan to see all kinds of concerts, on average about one per week.

Tomorrow night is R.E.M. at MSG.

Tuesday night is the New York Philharmonic on the Great Lawn of Central Park.

Live & Collective Soul are at the Hammerstein at the end of July!

Gekko, I heard REM was great at Jones Beach on SAturday night. I had tickets but with the lightning storm decided not to go. I still can't believe they played in that storm, usually rain yes, lightning no, but they went on anyway. Dangerous.....

enjoy!!! I saw them a few years ago at MSG and they were great!

Well, about 3 years ago we traveled from NYC to LA to see Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra MacDonald do Porgy & Bess with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. An enchanted time had by all.

This year, we don't have to stray too far to hear the beautiful pipes of Mr. Mitchell, we are hearing him in concert in the Pines on Fire Island in a few weeks. Makes my summer a hit, and anything after that is gravy.

Saw Steve Miller and Joe Cocker in Dallas recently -- just about a 20-mile drive, but it probably cost more in gas than when I used to travel 250 miles for a concert! (Great show, by the way!)

Yes, we're travelling to Austin to see the Austin City Limits Festival this coming September. It's an all weekend jam session held at Zilker Park. There's usually about 5 stages with a total of about 130 bands playing all weekend long. We've done this the past 3 years and have always enjoyed it - even with the intense heat! We were even on tv last year being interviewed about the experience of going to the concert.

www.aclfestival.com

It's not terribly far from home (about 3 hrs) but it's still a trip and we still are paying for hotel when we're there...does that count?

Jack Johnson at the Gorge at George, Washington in August.

I have a fond memory of 20 years ago, traveling in San Francisco, when we read that David Lindley (the great guitarist) and his band would be playing the next night in Cotati, a little town about an hour north of SF. We drove up and as we were checking into the local motel, there was David himself, in the lobby unpacking the boxes of T-shirts to sell at the show!

When we told him we'd come all the way from New York to see him, he said, "Really? I'm flattered!" We had to tell him the truth eventually tho. It was a great show . . .

Going with DH to the jazz festival in Detroit over Labor Day weekend.

Well, not a specific concert but we're going to Austin to hear a lot of music. And to meet a lot of fodorites!

Just saw Heart here in Honolulu a few weeks ago.

Those girls can still ROCK!

My wife and I loved the Eagles at MSG a few weeks ago. We loved it so much that we are going to see them again in Philadelphia on July 14th.

Steely Dan was a huge let down last week at the Beacon Theater in New York City. We had front row seats for opening night. The play list that evening didn't include some of the great songs from the Asia album.
A week from Saturday, we are going to see Steely Dan outside of Philadelphia to see if they can redeem themselves with a better play list.

I just got back from two weeks in the U.K. My special treat on this journey was seeing Paul McCartney headlining the "Liverpool Sound" concert in his hometown on June 1st. He finished the show with "I Saw Her Standing There". A few days later, I visited Paul's childhood home, where he and John wrote and rehearsed that very song. Who knew--45 years later--who knew??!!

I'm lucky to get to see a lot of great live music here in Chicago and am looking forward to a number of shows this summer. The only traveling for music that I have planned is heading to Summerfest in Milwaukee to see Lucinda Williams and Rodrigo y Gabriela on different nights. Am super excited for both shows.

We usually kick off the summer with a trip to Saquatch Music Festival at the Gorge in Washington. All the way from DC. I love love LOVE that venue.

I'm thinking of heading up to Saratoga Springs to see Bob Dylan play in August.

I've heard nothing but good things about "The Gorge". I'll have to make it out there one day.

It's a great place to see a show Katie.

Going to the San Jose Jazz Festival within 8 miles of home: http://festival2008.sanjosejazz.org/...doo-daddy.html
Looking forward to seeing Big, Bad Voodoo Daddy!

Saw John Fogerty a couple of weeks ago and he was great. One of our reviewers said it was one of the best shows he had seen.

I am jealous I don't live closer to Austin - I would love to go the ACLF. I've been to Austin (One summer in the 80's) and would love to return. It was like they had dropped upstate NY into the middle of Texas. Hills, water, greenery. I loved it.

Katie-Saratoga is a great venue. Enjoy.

We did go to the San Jose Jazz Festival just over a week ago. Was a quick light rail trip (15 minutes!) so more of a Stay-cation. The highlights were, Big Bad VooDoo Daddy and Manhattan Transfer. Lots of both indoor and outdoor stages. :-)

An impromptu trip to Pittsburgh last week was reason enough to catch Neil Diamond in his one appearance in town. Fab, fab, fab.

Well, since the Great New York State Fair is going on right now here in Syracuse, there are many,many great concerts be put on...we've gone to 3 already..Friday-The Spinners
Saturday- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Tuesday- Eddie Money
And these were the free shows!
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Ted Nugent, The Outlaws, and others are also playing at the free concert court area..
the big concerts are Daughtry, Styx and Boston, Heart, Journey, and Cheap Trick, Def Leppard, Brooks and Dunn, and many other great bands..

Drove to Hershey (about a 100 miles) to see Springsteen with my sister. We'd seen him before, but not with the E-Street Band.
Wow. Easy to see why his live shows are legendary, and very different from the folk oriented solo show we'd seen before.
Our only regret is that we got there too late to get any chocolate!

The Gorge is an incredible venue. The stage sits on the edge of a cliff above the Columbia River. The acoustics are great.

Fans of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (the Ring Cycle) have to be the most obsessive fans in the world.

Whenever and whereever in the world it is staged in its entiretly, 50% or more of the attendees come from out of the country in which it is being shown - often from the other side of the globe. Internatioanl airfare, a week or more in a hotel, four 4 hours+ operas.

Not to discount the Tom Petty/Steve Winwood fanatics, but those Wagner fanatics are in a league of their own...

Just returned from our trip to the Gorge to see Tom Petty. Fantastic concert and the gorge is an incredible place to see a concert. However, it was also incredibly hot almost 40 Farenheit and it stayed hot all night. We were on the floor and while they were great tickets, there were just too many people around to get any relief from the heat. Also, if you're not camping at the gorge (where there are no trees to provide any shade) accommodations are quite few and far between. We stayed in Ephrata, which was about a 40 minute drive. So while I really enjoyed the concert and the venue, it would take a really rocking show to get me back. (Personal opinion of course).

Lenore-- sounds tiring but it sounds like it was worth it to you this one time.

By the way... my mom and I drove 3 hours back to NYC from Saratoga Springs after the Bob Dylan concert there earlier this month. I cannot tell you how exhausted I was at the end of that drive!

I'm not sure that I'd go there again without making a weekend of it.

what a fun thread! I can finally participate...

we spent the weekend in NYC to see Yaz. Yaz ? Yes, Yaz. The English synth-pop duo of Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet (love her voice). Saw them at the Beacon...

very fun to relive those memories :)

Saw Sugarland at the Indiana State Fair a couple of weeks ago (only about an hour from our home). Traveling to New Mexico in 2 weeks and going to the Clay Walker concert at the NM State Fair.

We are country music fans and saw Montgomery Gentry at Meadowbrook in Guilford, NH last week. We will be going to see Vince Gill at Hampton Beach, NH on Sunday. Meadowbrook is my favorite venue - outside, clean, and good seats are always available.

I saw Styx/Boston at Pier 6 in Bawlmer Hon!! Both were great, but Boston holds special memories for me. Only regret .... they did not play "The Man I'll Never Be."

Going to see Alanis Morisette in September at the Lyric Theatre in Bawlmer, too.

OK, it's not summer anymore, but I have traveled to three different states for musicals. Does that count? Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat in Boston, Miss Saigon in St. Louis and Evita in Sacramento, in June, July and August. All starring my favorite Broadway actor/singer Eric Kunze. In a few weeks I'll see him again in Grease in Orange County and for New Year's Eve we'll be in Washington, DC for his appearance in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Kennedy Center. It's crazy I know, but this has been the most fun I've had in ages.

His fansite is: www.erickunze.com