Concert Review: A Concert Report: Jesse Palidofsky
Date of event: The concert took place on 16 January 2018.
Name of event (if a formal concert): Jesse Palidofsky!
Location and brief description of the venue (seating, number of attendees, etc.): The concert took place at the The Gateway Assisted Living Facility in Poway, CA. It took place in the main lobby with rows of chairs, along with a few couches in the front. Overall, there was around 100 people in the room during the performance.
Name of performer(s) or band(s): The performer of the concert was Jesse Palidofsky.
Type of music: Jesse’s music was acoustic-based with him only performing with a guitar, piano, harmonica, and even a kazoo on one song. He normally plays folk music, but in this performance, he played acoustic covers primarily of pop and rock tunes from the 40’s to the 70’s. But he also did some polka and blues. It was a wide variety of genres overall, all done acoustically.
Composition titles: Jesse did not tell the names of all of the songs, but the songs he did announce the titles for included Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love”, The Beatles’ “Hey Jude”, Pete Seeger’s “Guantanamera”, Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York”, Fats Domino’s “Blueberry Hill”, the song “When The Saints Go Marching In”, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz, the holiday song “Let It Snow”, and an original song called “Lift Me …show more content…
Jesse is a pretty mellow guy. Before each song, he would tell a story relating to the song. Before he performed “When The Saints Go Marching In”, he told a story about how an old man at another retirement home requested the song because that was the song he sang along with fellow soldiers when they liberated Paris in World War II. Also, he would give stories relating to his childhood, family members, and his previous experience as a musician. During the song, he would instruct the audience to sing along and clap to the
Name of event (if a formal concert): Jesse Palidofsky!
Location and brief description of the venue (seating, number of attendees, etc.): The concert took place at the The Gateway Assisted Living Facility in Poway, CA. It took place in the main lobby with rows of chairs, along with a few couches in the front. Overall, there was around 100 people in the room during the performance.
Name of performer(s) or band(s): The performer of the concert was Jesse Palidofsky.
Type of music: Jesse’s music was acoustic-based with him only performing with a guitar, piano, harmonica, and even a kazoo on one song. He normally plays folk music, but in this performance, he played acoustic covers primarily of pop and rock tunes from the 40’s to the 70’s. But he also did some polka and blues. It was a wide variety of genres overall, all done acoustically.
Composition titles: Jesse did not tell the names of all of the songs, but the songs he did announce the titles for included Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love”, The Beatles’ “Hey Jude”, Pete Seeger’s “Guantanamera”, Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York”, Fats Domino’s “Blueberry Hill”, the song “When The Saints Go Marching In”, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz, the holiday song “Let It Snow”, and an original song called “Lift Me …show more content…
Jesse is a pretty mellow guy. Before each song, he would tell a story relating to the song. Before he performed “When The Saints Go Marching In”, he told a story about how an old man at another retirement home requested the song because that was the song he sang along with fellow soldiers when they liberated Paris in World War II. Also, he would give stories relating to his childhood, family members, and his previous experience as a musician. During the song, he would instruct the audience to sing along and clap to the