Gogol Bordello
Picking a genuine favorite is impossible, but the most fun I ever remember having at a show was watching Gogol Bordello at the Big Easy in Boise. The band’s circus-like gypsy punk-rock spectacle cast aside all music politics to embrace a purely sweaty shouting backflipping bucket-drumming unrepressed two hours of pulsing awesomeness.

Cirque du Soleil

The best live show I have ever witnessed was Cirque du Soleil’s “La Nouba” in Orlando. It was like going to the circus with weird, weird clowns. The show was so visually interesting because nothing ever stayed in the same place or did the same thing. There were classic C.D.S. acts, like acrobats on ribbons and operatic vocal solos, but there are always cool new things they throw in for different shows. La Nouba had a dude doing crazy bicycle tricks in a leotard covered in numbers. He wasn’t the coolest part, but you can’t really forget a dude dressed in numbers.

Alicia Keys
The live performance that impressed me the most was seeing Alicia Keys in concert in Stuttgart, Germany. It was 2002, and Keys was on her first European tour to promote “Songs in A Minor.”
What made this performance so memorable was her exceptional talent, both as a singer and as an entertainer. She sounded even better live than she does on the CD. My friends and I left in awe and played her CD over and over again for weeks after.

Alicia Keys - Courtesy Photo

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