Life is a State of Mind

Last night Erci took me to the Ian Anderson concert at Wolf Trap. It was amazing. Ian featured Lucia Micarelli on violin, and she got her own standing ovation with her energetic version of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” (Ian and the band and the orchestra played backup).

She played along with Ian through several re-arranged classical and contemporary pieces, and every Jethro Tull favorite except “Aqualung” (she took a break then). Ian’s flute playing was amazing and as animated as ever; though he overdid his signature clown act a bit much for my taste (though the crowd loved it). “Bouree” and “Thick As A Brick” keep getting better and better every time I hear them. The Orchestral Jethro Tull concert added a Sibelius arrangement and a re-timed Mozart tune, I liked both.

Lucia and the Jethro Tull members each have their own blogs, though the Tull members’ blogs are pretty corporate sanitized. It was hot and sticky, and no one seemed to mind. We briefly ran into Jason in the crowd, but could not find him again later. There was a lot of history in the T-Shirts worn by fans.