The Women and Children of Africa...

... were the beneficiaries, last night, of a concert sponsored by Gail Chasin and Kelly McMahon with Gather the Women at a small venue in Laguna Hills last night. "One Sound," as the concert was titled, provided us with an amazing evening of music and fun. As I've said before in other contexts, I am awed by the ability of musicians and singers to open up their depths as human beings and put it out there in front of an audience. The closest I come myself is in my readings--where I have always the benefit of the text on the page in front of me. It's a wonderful experience, to have that sense of contact with others--but I wouldn't attempt it without the prop of the written word. Musical performance seems to me so much riskier, so much more vulnerable, so much more... revealing, in some way. Having little knowledge of music, I'm not planing to even try to reduce the whole experience to a few inadequate words. Enough to say that I came away delighted that our friends had alerted us to the event, and had taken us along with them. More tomorrow...