Natalie Merchant

Wonderful, intimate moment where she finally played "Tell Yourself"! (this only photo taken was after the concert finished after the encore)

The entire show was mesmerizing, and frankly transformative.

Natalie's beautiful voice was perfect in this intimate venue.

Absolutely fantastic! It was a small cozy venue. Natalie was so down to earth and humble. She performed for us as if we were a group of good friends hanging out.

Natalie was friendly and very entertaining, and she and her accompanist Eric performed their acoustic set beautifully for the most part, though she forgot the words to a couple of her songs, several times in one instance, blaming it on being at the midpoint of the tour (and after all, she was picking from songs all across the years and she's got hundreds now, so who can blame her for getting a little mixed up every now and then?). She went to the keyboard to accompany herself on piano for 'Wonder' and a couple of songs after that before resuming with Eric for a long and pleasant encore. Having chatted with several audience members (including me!) over the course of the show, she gave the youngest guest (a ten-year-old) a copy of the box set she's promoting, as the front desk had sold out before the performance started, and handed out gladioli from the vase in my photograph to various people before departing. :)

Incredible voice, incredible talent.