Great show with a couple caveats
by MaryO on 3/16/24Kiva Auditorium at the Albuquerque Convention Center - AlbuquerqueRating: 4 out of 5I love gregory allen isikoff and I loved this concert. The band was amazing. A couple of things were weird to me, though. The lighting was so dang dark. It was kind of hard to see the members of the band. Also, the kiva theater in Albuquerque is very very WIDE which means that , if your seat is off to the side, you might not get a very good view of the stage. We were in the third row, but because we were off to the side we only saw about 40% of the stage. Never saw whatever kind of slide show or whatever it was that was being projected behind the band. Never saw the drummer or steel pedal player. That was a bummer. The warm up band was a woman named Bonnie who was amazing and talented but , once again, after the first couple of songs she started playing the cello and we could not see her at all, because she stepped back a bit and the weird configuration of this theater. Another thing to mention about Bonnie. SHE NEVER INTRODUCED HERSELF. It seems like a little thing when I wrote it, but it , combined with how dark the theater was, and the fact that we couldn't even see her, made me feel like there was not a connection between the audience ( or at least this member of it) and the musician. I suggest that the band, when they are doing their sound check, have someone sit in different seats in the theaters they are playing to make sure people can see and situate where they play accordingly.
