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[MUSIC REVIEW] Suzanne Vega at the Mahaiwe
9.21.07
MAHAIWE THEATRE
Suzanne Vega
September 16, 2007
Review by Seth Rogovoy
Last Sunday night, Suzanne Vega performed a terrific concert at the Mahaiwe Theatre in Great Barrington that pleased old and new fans alike. With her four-piece band, Vega mixed old favorites with several numbers from her excellent recent album, Beauty and Crime, many of which focus on her native New York City.
Vega smartly bookended the concert proper with two versions of one of her greatest hits: “Tom’s Diner.” She opened the concert alone on stage singing the song in its original a cappella arrangement. Then, at the conclusion of the concert, she started the song again – momentarily puzzling a good portion of the crowd – but then her band kicked in and laid down a funky groove behind the song, which has been the basis of many such remakes and remixes by other bands.
In between, Vega and her band were totally solid, digging deep into her folk roots with songs like “Marlene on the Wall” through her industrial-folk period with “Blood Makes Noise” up to, as previously noted, songs from her new album like “Ludlow Street” and the very appropriate “Edith Wharton’s Figurines” – Vega mentioned that earlier in the day she and her band paid a visit to The Mount in Lenox, where Wharton wrote some of her best known works. And of course, Vega played a pitch-perfect rendition of the song that made her famous, “Luka,” about a battered child.
10/11/2007
Thanks for the Suzanne Vega review as we are considering seeing her soon. As many of her songs are quite short how long approximately was her show, main + encore(s) ? Thanks, Chris.
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