Loose Leaf Notes

It was a beautiful night to see Sarah McLachlan at the DC Merriweather Post Pavilion with our good friends Greg and Laura.

Our drinks were cold and our seats were lawn green on the grassy knoll.

We were in good company with a mix of fans who sang along to her songs. I think our group started the dancing.

By the near end of the show EVERYONE was dancing.

We found Greg’s daughters, exchanged some hugs and got a better view…

where the dancing and sing-along resumed.

She played my two favorites right off the top: Building a Mystery and I Will Remember You.

She built the mystery by playing some new songs before playing the whole of Fumbling Toward Ecstasy.

I knew what song was coming next because she sang them in the order of the album that we had played over and over in the 90s.

I will remember you. Will you remember me? We played it at my brother Jim’s funeral memorial in 2001 and it got everyone crying.

Some of the songs choked me up, but none as much as her new song Gravity, which she wrote for her daughter who has struggled with anxiety and rage. She came on the stage at the end and mother and daughter embraced. Listen HERE.

It surely was a night to remember!