On 2 October 2006, Melua entered the Guinness Book of Records for playing the deepest underwater concert 303 metres below sea level on the Norwegian Statoil's Troll A platform in the North Sea.
But in that small pocket of musical culture called New York, the early-music world was slow to sink its roots very deep into concert life.
Friday night's "Postcard," unlike the earlier rendition that was buried deep into the concert, found itself at the beginning of the program and served as an excellent appetizer of what was to come.
So the Stasi came up with some counter-pop tactics: an Ablenkkonzert ("diversionary concert"), deeper in the city; a broadcast of the concert in a stadium, with a delay in case of political statements — or, better yet, with footage of an entirely different Michael Jackson concert.
Deep End Sessions concert series, with Beverly Smith and John Grimm, will take place on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Deep End Ranch in Santa Paula.
The Deep End Sessions concert series has brought together old-time musicians from all over the country for intimate performances held inside a century-old farmhouse belonging to artist and citrus rancher David Bunn.
He collected multiple awards: as songwriter for the Allmans' "Old Before My Time" and for live performance and live album with Gov't Mule on "The Deepest End," a New Orleans concert.
Beach Central Park, Feb. 8, 4 p.m., galveston.com HOUSTON Sky High Most of us will never get to fly in outer space, but you can get close at Deep Sky Objects, a concert by Musiqa featuring a soprano soloist and poetry about lost love in deep space, accompanied by a piano quintet and electronics, all set against NASA photographs of star fields.
Traffic in unauthorized live recordings has proved fan interest runs deep for many bands' concert material, particularly groups like Phish that alter their shows nightly with improvisational sets.
MUSIC HALL DAC15.2 $300 Audiophiles like a big "soundstage" — their term for the impression that the instruments in the recording are spread apart, like a large orchestra on a wide, deep stage of a concert hall.
