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Eugene and I watched Sara Bareilles perform at the Esplanade Concert Hall last night, together with Kevin and Tina. It was FANTASTICALLY AWESOME. It started at 8:30pm with an opening act by one of her team mates, Misty Boyce. She sang until 9pm. Then there was a half-hour intermission. At about 9:35pm, Sara Bareilles came on and she sang all the way until 11pm. It was a whole medley of familiar and newer songs. She switched between acoustic guitar, keyboard, electric guitar and ukelele. Last night it was more of an acoustic setting with her and 2 other band members, Misty Boyce and Steve Goold. It was just 3 people, but the music was SO full and so tight, it was amazing. Misty Boyce was on the keyboards, acoustic guitar on a few songs, and backing vocals. She blended so well with Sara Bareilles! I was amazed at how she could play a bass line on 1 keyboard and play another line on the other keyboard (she had 2 keyboards, 1 stacked on top of the other). Then there was Steve Goo...

Eugene's friend got us 2 free tickets to the Aerosmith concert because he was a SAFRA member, each ticket worth about $160.  I was excited about it because attending a concert like that was a completely new experience for me. At the same time, I wondered how much I would enjoy it because my idea of a concert like that is to stand up, wave your hands high up in the air, singing along very loudly with the band. But I only knew one song by Aerosmith, "I don't want to miss a thing", the theme song of the Armageddon movie. Even then, I only knew the tune but not the lyrics, so I could not have sung along with them. So I did entertain the silly thought of studying Aerosmith's songs so that at least I could be a more worthy concert-attendee. But I didn't do any studying. I just went. And it was still great! Thank God it didn't rain and the ground was dry. Eugene's friend also remembered to bring a groundsheet that was big enough to seat the group...