A last minute plan

My friend Allison & I had lunch on Tuesday. She mentioned that she & her husband & other friends were going to the Alison Kraus concert on Thursday night. I exclaimed (not really) that I had wanted to go to that concert, but by the time I found out about it, the tickets were sold out. She said they might have an extra ticket... turns out - they did! so, we (Matt & Allison & Beth, the US-2 who works at The Bethlehem Center with Allison) went out for dinner before the concert at Hal & Mal's - local brewery in Jackson, and then to the concert.

We sat in the 3rd to the last row in the balcony - i think the air was lighter up there, and Alison Kraus & Union Station were merely little shapes on the stage. Facial features were not seen. Body shapes were seen.

It was a WONDERFUL concert - a great mix of acoustic bluegrass music with a blend of Alison singing with male backups, and occassionally one of the male members of Union Station taking the lead with Alison harmonizing. Either way, it was beautiful. For those of you who DON'T know this - Dan -------- (don't know the last name) did the voice overs for George Clooney in O'Brother Where Art Thou... and so we heard "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow" and the encore was an acapella version of "Down to the River to Pray" - which was just haunting.

I was SO thankful for the opportunity to go... this week has turned out to be fairly busy & fairly social, which is a nice change.