Best Gala Ever!
by BG69 on 6/7/18Apollo Theater - New YorkShow was fabulous! Best Gala/concert I’ve attended. It was great being at the Apollo, a childhood dream. Salt N Pepa stole the show!
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Show was fabulous! Best Gala/concert I’ve attended. It was great being at the Apollo, a childhood dream. Salt N Pepa stole the show!
The Apollo Spring Gala: an experience that was exciting, energizing, enervating, and educational. I've always called myself "old school". And I never really gave rap or hip-hop a chance after I heard Charles Barkley tell Letterman "Dave, you gotta remember, rap sucks." (Charles doesn't really hold much back.) The structure of the program, the selection and the sequence, allowed me, for the first time, to see the evolution of music to rap and hip-hop. With that vision, I can hear the music anew. I'm not sure I can sell that so easily up here in Vermont. Old timers up here still mortify me by referring to "coloreds". I expect to be back at the Gala for many years- until I have moved from respiration to photosynthesis.
Joss Stone's performance alone made the evening 5*. Great diversity of performers. Too much self-congratulatory talking at the beginning. Being bored for 30 mins waiting for show to start diminished the energy in the room