Loved it!
by Sara on 10/25/23Birchmere - AlexandriaI love Iris. While I'm not a regular country/bluegrass fan, I love Iris's music, her voice and her lyrics. My husband and I went to the Birchmere in October 2023 to see Iris for the first time. She sounded wonderful and she shared some entertaining stories. This concert was only a few days after the start of the Israel/ Palestine conflict. Iris sang "Warriors of Love", a song which among other things, talks about a young American woman named Rachel Corrie who was killed trying to defend Palestinian rights. After the song was over, a woman in the audience shouted a big thank you to Iris for acknowledging the plight of the Palestinian people and criticizing the U.S. for its support of Israel. Other people in the room started getting angry and it quickly got heated. Security came to remove the woman and Iris calmly looked at her and simply said, "No, just let her be. There's a lot of people right now who are in so much pain."And she quietly played church music on the piano. The woman left the room with the security guards and I thought about a world where people had a disagreement, everyone listened, and someone started playing music to restore calm. Iris said she saw a t-shirt that read "What everybody needs right now is a good listening to". I'm listening to Iris.