GREAT concert by Ismael Serrano in Tarragona tonight - I JUST returned to the hotel after 2 encores and nearly 2.5 hours of wonderful music.
I was seated on the floor in the 12th row (of 14) and there was one (if not two) balconies above. I felt so close! It was just Ismael playing his guitar while singing along with guitar support by "Freddie" - who was expert.
Ismael started the concert playing about 5 of his songs from his latest CD so I wasn´t familiar with them but then started playing all those which which I AM familiar so that was wonderful. He played a number of songs mentioning Madrid so he didn´t shy away from the whole Madrid versus Catalunya conflict BUT he did NOT play Km.0 to my great disappointment but with no surprise. I´m SURE he´ll be playing/singing that one at his NEXT concert, sold out, in that HUGE venue (Palacio de los Congresos? - where they had the Goya Awards) in Madrid next month.
I found it wildly ironic that I´d just trained in from Madrid, was listening to my beloved favorite singer who´s from Madrid (Vallekas), singing some songs about Madrid, I´m MadridMan, and I´m IN Tarragona, CATALUNYA. MMMmmm! Okay, so it´s light on irony.
There were a couple (or four) songs that brought a tear to my eye, such sentimental songs, such emotion in his voice, and I was there listening and watching him LIVE. Man. It doesn´t get any better than that. Well, if it COULD´VE been better had this all taken place in MADRID in an equally small (and amazingly clean) venue as they have here in Tarragona´s Teatro Metropoli on La Rambla Nova (immediately next to a McDonald´s
).
Hope some of you got tickets for that sold-out concert of his in Madrid - or in the future. You won´t be sorry.
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