9:13 pm photo from third row, Berklee Performance Center
Guess Who lead singer Burton Cummings gave a solo piano performance at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston on Saturday evening, October 3, 2015. The show opened with a seven minute and fifty-five second biography video of the journeyman that was as enlightening and exquisite as the show itself.
Just a small electric piano on the stage, a microphone and then the presence and voice that has entertained us for so many years.
with his voice perfect and pure. In the atmosphere of the famous musical college, with many musicians inspired by Cummings and his colleagues, the performance came off like an intimate songwriting clinic.
You Saved My Soul Live at City Winery NYC 7/1/14https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMJigbILaug
Truly there was "power in the music" of one singer marveling at the artists who have also played the venue - giving a nod to Keith Jarrett - Cummings declaring that artist "the greatest living pianist on the planet."
second 9:21 pm photo, not in order of the songs, much later
second 9:21 pm photo, not in order of the songs, much later_____________________________________________________________
Second song, "Sour Suite," opened with the singer noting that he had received "a letter from a gal in Indianapolis" - so he mopped the zip code for the composition - "it's just like 46201." A distinctly different flavor without the band.
November 30, 2011 - a solo rendition four years before the Boston show 11/30/11 at Northern Lights Theater, Milwaukee, WI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jvSsYJqiow
first 9:24 pm photo
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Sans the backing band, Burton's personality emerges more prominently, of course. And for fans it is a charming concert in the living room-styled one on one.
Songs 3 and 4, the medley of "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature and talk about unplugged. The material takes on a new "nature" of sorts, or a new personality without the pun, and the heavy studio production. Check out the rendition a week after Berklee at the Virginia concert :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd7yaUUkz6w
the theater had superb lighting while Burton's left hand kept the bottom, his right going up and down the keyboard.
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5) Albert Flasher State Theater, Falls Church VAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbwGYliv_ls
6)Maggie Mae / Gordon Lightfoot impersonation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlmcx06aiAI
7)Mack the Knife
8)Stand Tall
9)Ferry Across The Mercy
Burton Cummings - "Ferry Cross the Mersey" Rams Head Tavern, Annapolis, 11 12 13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlMVCnD3qa8
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10)I'm Scared11)Clap For the Wolfman
Dream of a Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0adue6km2Y
Burton Cummings Dream of a Child Newton Theater Newton, NJ 11 15 2013
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SHARE THE LAND
Live at Berklee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IILtUvSzp0I
Photo at 9:10 pm
No Time 10-10-15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8eMML2A-7c
Undun 10-10-15 Virginia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrygEelOghY
These Eyes October 10, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3BayBtAdX8
Burton Cummings THE MAGIC PIANO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAnfSeuUfHM
I Will Always Wait for You 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXqbpmfU3OM
Burton Cummings Backstage with Joe Viglione, Berklee Performance Center October 3, 2015
Top 40 Disc #2
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