Monday 20 july 2009 1 20 /07 /2009 18:24

Last saturday was the last day of the jazz festival and Prince performed 2 concerts at the Auditorium Stravinski. I had the chance to attend both concerts.
I am not a big fan of Prince but wanted to attend these shows as everybody was talking about it for a long time. 

The first concert started at 7:30, right on time. Lights went off and a voice introduced the entire band who came on stage. Then the same voice said "My name is Prince". The auditorium became crazy and Prince appeared on stage with a red costume and amazing earings.

After 45 minutes, he said thanks, goodbye and left the stage...but came back for 15 minutes...and left again and came back for a few more songs. The show lasted 1 hour 30 in total and was mainly with jazz songs which I never heart before.  Not even the song "Kiss" or "Purple rain" were played. However I must say that all songs were great. He is an authentic show men with lots of charism and he is playing the guitar (on a purple Fender Stratocater) soooooo well. (I wish to play like this once)  

I loved it so much that I went to the second show which started at midnight, with 30 minutes delay. This second show was at 90% the same than the first one. Maybe a couple of songs were different but for this show he performed "Purple rain" as the last song. The atmosphere was just very hot !!

His band members are excellent musicians and what I found nice from him is that he left them showing their skills alone several times. I especially loved the drum player.

At the end of the second show Mr Claude Nobs, the founder of the festival, came on stage to thanks everybody and to announce the 2010 dates - July 02-17th - He also showed the next poster which is representing a boy playing the guitar and a dog on a chair. Not bad...but not top. 
 
Below a video of this show if you missed it. If you attended this concert or another concert of Prince, let us know your comments. 

  
 
      
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