After the bristling energy of the Barrowlands we can to the sedate understated pace of the Royal Concert hall.From the rowdy passions of the Ballroom we see an older more Family set of fans.
Christy started with this great song about the universal immigrant missing the home of their birth.
A favourite of mine is the song Allende , about the democratically elected leader of Chile who was killed in his Presidential Palace and the great musical poet Victor Jara who was tortured to death in the National Football Stadium in Santiago.The irony is both died with bombs and bullets made in the USA , as this brilliant tribute song explains:
The crowd , to their credit , was as emotionally involved and immersed in the mood of the evening as any orchestral music audience could be.
The night was perfectly rounded of by this brilliant version of a song any person who have suffered even an iota of unjust treatment can relate to:
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