- This event has passed.
Hello Yellow Brick Road – a tribute to Elton John
November 10, 2017 @ 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm
The iconic double album “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” performed in its entirety! Take a journey to 1973 and experience one of pop music’s true classics, as interpreted by an all-star cast of Pacific Northwest musicians:
Jen Ayers (vocals & keys)
Daniel Walker (keys & vocals)
Patrick R. Porter (vocals & guitar)
Kathy Moore (guitar & vocals)
Richard Davidson (bass & vocals)
Geoff Reading (drums)
Tickets available here: http://www.strangertickets.com/events/47188581/hello-yellow-brick-road
Vocalist/guitarist Patrick R. Porter describes the inspiration for this show:
“I was four years old in 1973, and one night my parents were about to leave me with a babysitter and go out for the evening. When the babysitter showed up, she had a fresh copy of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road still wrapped in the original cellophane. She was bringing it to play on my dad’s enormous stereo, which dominated the small living room at our house in Skyway. Dad saw an opportunity, and he postponed the plans he had for the evening so he could get a fresh recording of the album on his reel-to-reel tape recorder, literally the first time that the vinyl record was ever played. Thus the true story: I fell in love with this album because my dad bootlegged it from my babysitter.”
The core band will be joined by many special guests, including Shawn Smith of Satchel, and Matt Alber from Portland. This show will be a (reasonably) faithful reading of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, plus a few special encore songs to close the night. Just like the album itself, there will be two sets with a brief intermission between album one and album two.
Leave a Reply