i had the opportunity to go see icelandic songbird emiliana torrini at hiro ballroom with my friend angela 2 weekends ago. after stopping off for some good grub at westville (the w. 10th version) we took a lovely stroll through the west village up towards chelsea to hiro ballroom.
since we got there pretty much when the doors opened, we took the time out to "strategize" and find our placement in the venue (neither of us had been to hiro before). we settled on the landing of the stairs - it gave us a great view of the entire stage and we didn't have to worry about getting our view blocked by the tall icelandic folks we saw on line earlier.
emiliana came out donned in a dress that resembled a muumuu but with a little more structure added to it - although a bit odd looking i'm sure it was comfy. the concert was great - her voice lovely and the songs were a good mixture of sad melodic crooning to poppy make-you-wanna-dance tunes... her energy was great and her band was awesome... she definitely won me over with her ramblings of falling in love and a somewhat zen approach to life and i'm pretty sure angela and i kept whispering to each other after each story "oh damn, she's so cute"...
the show lasted about 90 min (or slightly longer). but i enjoyed it so much that it really felt shorter and was definitely disappointed that the concert was over. regardless, emiliana was great to see and i have a feeling the next time she plays in nyc, she'll probably end up in a bigger venue that won't have the intimacy we experienced that night... so i'm gonna give angela a shout out for having the good call on seeing this show! whootwhoot!
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thanks for letting me know about the MoMA exhibit! i will definitely be checking that out. i feel like i must have lived out west in my previous life...
yay emiliana! i'm still melting, but i just watched that british american idol lady's performance on youtube. that was really touching too :)
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